Mara

girls’ nameAt its peakCompare

Mara is ranked 588th among girls in 2024 (514 births). Its best rank was 538th, in 1990.

Rank in 2024: #588down 6 from 2023
Births in 2024: 5140.03% of girls
Peak year: 2021568 births
Best rank: #538in 1990
Since 1892: 23,535people given the name

Babies named Mara, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

23,535 girls have been named Mara in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 568 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 2000s alone account for 17%. It has spent 75 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Mara
1890s	6
1910s	67
1920s	130
1930s	145
1940s	327
1950s	1,417
1960s	1,941
1970s	2,566
1980s	2,623
1990s	3,888
2000s	4,038
2010s	3,849
2020s	2,538

In 2021, its biggest year

Mara was the 540th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2021 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Ava. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Mara

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Marah2,347 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.