Kara
41
Babies in 2024
-68%
10-year change
2011
Peak · 275
-7%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Kara
Kara has been falling out of fashion as a UK girl's name. In 2024, 41 girls were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 68% on a decade earlier.
Kara reached its peak in 2011, when 275 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #186 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 15% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 4,066 girls have been officially registered with the name Kara in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 982 girls were registered with the name, starting from 127 in 2014 and ending at 41 in 2024.