Meaning and history
Meaning unknown, possibly of Sumerian origin. In Armenian legend, this name belonged to a king of Armenia whose beauty led the Assyrian queen Semiramis to wage war in an attempt to capture him, and Ara was killed during the conflict.
20062006: 29 births, rank #4,811
2007: 22 births, rank #6,093
2008: 26 births, rank #5,434
2009: 30 births, rank #4,805
2010: 34 births, rank #4,306
20112011: 28 births, rank #4,915
2012: 55 births, rank #3,040
2013: 42 births, rank #3,645
2014: 49 births, rank #3,272
2015: 49 births, rank #3,299
20162016: 53 births, rank #3,100
2017: 62 births, rank #2,744
2018: 62 births, rank #2,744
2019: 54 births, rank #3,002
2020: 55 births, rank #2,931
20212021: 75 births, rank #2,384
2022: 78 births, rank #2,364
2023: 52 births, rank #3,140
2024: 51 births, rank #3,119
20252025: 48 births, rank #3,249
Ara moved from #969 to #1000 for girls between 1915 and 1918. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 52.