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Tarra

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tarra has been given to 2,295 babies in the U.S. since 1955. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 118 recorded.

Babies named Tarra, 2020

1 in 477,000

Tarra 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tarra: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tarra means

Tarra is a given name.

The naming story behind Tarra

Wikidata records Tarra as a given name. The entity identifier is Q111073750, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,295 girls were recorded with the name Tarra between 1955 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 118 in 1972; its best national rank was #1,005 in 1972.

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.

How common is Tarra?

Tarra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tarra 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 2020 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 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tarra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tarras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tarra was born before 1981 — so the typical Tarra is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
37.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,295
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 37.1% of all recorded uses (852).

Is Tarra 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1972 (118)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,005
1972

Spellings of Tarra

Tarra is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 21.0% against Tarra's 0.06%.

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 Tarra is used

Across 1910–2025, Tarra was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 168,518 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 in —

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. Tarra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tarra around the world

Where Tarra 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.

  • France
    2012–2018
    #5,701
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1991–1998
    #2,528
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1983–1992
    #704
    in 1992

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). 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 Tarra

People whose public names include Tarra, 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.

Tarra in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tarra. 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.

Tarra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,005
1972
Peak year
1972
118 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
2,295
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tarra

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

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Names with a curve like Tarra

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

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Sibling names for Tarra

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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