Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Dara” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dara” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dara” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Dara” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Dara” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Dara” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Dara” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dara” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1905 6 0.000014154 6 100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 100%
1913 5 0.000004397 5 100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 100%
1915 6 0.000003274 6 100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 100%
1919 7 0.000003317 7 100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 100%
1921 16 0.000006854 16 100%
1922 9 0.000003932 9 100%
1923 14 0.00000608 14 100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 100%
1925 8 0.000003429 8 100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 100%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 100%
1933 10 0.000005001 10 100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 100%
1939 11 0.000004992 11 100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1942 9 0.000003295 9 100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 100%
1945 18 0.000006785 18 100%
1946 30 0.000009389 30 100%
1947 53 0.000014713 53 100%
1948 24 0.000006951 24 100%
1949 51 0.000014635 51 100%
1950 57 0.00001627 57 100%
1951 69 0.000018731 69 100%
1952 77 0.000020274 77 100%
1953 76 0.000019722 76 100%
1954 85 0.000021353 85 100%
1955 67 0.000016687 61 6 82%
1956 132 0.000032015 132 100%
1957 118 0.000028081 118 100%
1958 130 0.000031447 130 100%
1959 166 0.000039923 166 100%
1960 132 0.000031778 132 100%
1961 158 0.000038143 150 8 90%
1962 156 0.000038658 151 5 94%
1963 176 0.000044465 176 100%
1964 164 0.000042185 158 6 93%
1965 149 0.000041098 149 100%
1966 194 0.000055817 194 100%
1967 187 0.000055083 187 100%
1968 233 0.000068967 233 100%
1969 310 0.0000892 310 100%
1970 287 0.000079578 279 8 94%
1971 312 0.0000909 307 5 97%
1972 247 0.000078587 247 100%
1973 271 0.000089828 271 100%
1974 260 0.000085526 254 6 95%
1975 221 0.000073193 221 100%
1976 254 0.00008371 254 100%
1977 273 0.000085944 267 6 96%
1978 291 0.000091686 285 6 96%
1979 264 0.000079351 264 100%
1980 440 0.00012774 431 9 96%
1981 466 0.000134706 453 13 94%
1982 332 0.000094642 321 11 93%
1983 269 0.000077671 254 15 89%
1984 287 0.000082264 277 10 93%
1985 261 0.000073127 222 39 70%
1986 252 0.000070845 228 24 81%
1987 264 0.000073219 239 25 81%
1988 264 0.000071447 240 24 82%
1989 255 0.000066329 240 15 88%
1990 238 0.000060215 219 19 84%
1991 256 0.000065721 235 21 84%
1992 241 0.00006274 220 21 83%
1993 221 0.000058616 198 23 79%
1994 199 0.000053528 171 28 72%
1995 180 0.000049151 163 17 81%
1996 169 0.000046337 152 17 80%
1997 158 0.000043577 145 13 84%
1998 178 0.000048393 162 16 82%
1999 157 0.000042503 143 14 82%
2000 174 0.000046033 153 21 76%
2001 170 0.000045413 155 15 82%
2002 119 0.000031833 112 7 88%
2003 135 0.000035505 115 20 70%
2004 117 0.000030621 109 8 86%
2005 106 0.000027569 97 9 83%
2006 92 0.000023255 81 11 76%
2007 90 0.000022513 81 9 80%
2008 89 0.000022642 83 6 87%
2009 98 0.000025653 92 6 88%
2010 86 0.00002327 77 9 79%
2011 59 0.00001613 52 7 76%
2012 80 0.000021874 74 6 85%
2013 74 0.000020298 67 7 81%
2014 80 0.000021584 74 6 85%
2015 74 0.000019995 65 9 76%
2016 82 0.000022351 71 11 73%
2017 122 0.000034114 110 12 80%
2018 226 0.000064279 206 20 82%
2019 243 0.00007001 227 16 87%
2020 195 0.000058373 166 29 70%
2021 166 0.000048997 132 34 59%
2022 186 0.000054979 148 38 59%
2023 136 0.000041073 107 29 57%
2024 276 0.00008292 244 32 77%

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