Ara

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A few things about Ara you might not know, from US birth records and Wikipedia. Handy for convincing a partner, or a grandparent.

⭐ Famous Ara

Ara Güler

Turkish photographer (1928–2018)

Choose Ara and your child shares a first name with Ara Güler, a Turkish photographer. A ready-made answer when someone asks “Ara, like who?” Ara Güler's Wikipedia article is available in 25 languages, a good sign of just how widely known they are.

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Photo: Francis Payne, CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab), via Wikimedia Commons

• 👶How commonAbout 1 in every 33,445 baby girls born in the US in 2025 was named Ara, 48 babies in all. In a typical school of 500 kids, your Ara would very likely be the only one.
• 📜HistoryAra has been in use since at least 1880, the first year US birth records were kept. That's 145 years of Aras, and counting.
• 🏆Best yearIt was far more popular in 1884, when it ranked #479. Today it's #3,249, so it could be due a comeback.
• 🍂TrendAra has slipped 318 places over the last five years and now sits at #3,249. Good news if you want a familiar name that fewer kids will share.
• ⚖️Boy or girlAra is given to both boys and girls: 83% of the 58 babies named Ara in 2025 were girls. That makes it one of the names that truly works for either.
• 🔁Word funAra is a palindrome: it reads the same forwards and backwards.

About the name Ara

Ara is a gender-neutral name. It has 3 letters and 1 syllable, starting with A and ending in “-ara”. US birth records list Ara for girls from 1880 to 2025, in 146 of those 146 years. Its best year was 1884, when it ranked #479 among girl names. In 2025 it ranked #3,249, with 48 babies. Of the 58 US babies named Ara in 2025, 83% were girls and 17% were boys.