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Tarah

#14,753 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Tara

Tarah has been given to 4,737 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #14,753 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 267 recorded.

Babies named Tarah, 2025

1 in 553,000

Tarah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tarah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tara

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tarah means

Tarah is a variant of Tara.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tarah is used in English (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɑːɹ.ə/, /ˈtɛɹ.ə/ and /ˈtæɹ.ə/ for Tarah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Tarah is a variant of Tara. Tara has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Tarah is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tara.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,737 girls were recorded with the name Tarah between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 267 in 1985; its best national rank was #660 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,476 in 2020 to #14,753 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,433 in 2015 to #14,753 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tarah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,753
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tarah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tarah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tarahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tarah was born before 1987 — so the typical Tarah is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
46.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,737
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 46.1% of all recorded uses (2,182).

Is Tarah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,732
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,277
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−8,320
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.2%
Peak was 1985 (267)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#660
1983

Spellings of Tarah

Tarah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 44.6% against Tarah's 0.19%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tarah is used

Across 1910–2025, Tarah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 52,043 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Colorado1 in 33,333
  4. 4Michigan1 in 33,333
  5. 5Missouri1 in 33,333
  6. 6Ohio1 in 33,333
  7. 7Oregon1 in 33,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tarah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tarah around the world

Where Tarah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014
  • France
    1992–2025
    #4,407
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1972–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tarah

People whose public names include Tarah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tarah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tarah. Linked forms have their own page here.

Tara

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tarah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,753
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,277
Best rank ever
#660
1983
Peak year
1985
267 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,737
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Tarah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Tarah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tarah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Tarah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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