Mara
118
Babies in 2024
+188%
10-year change
2024
Peak · 118
+55%
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 Mara
Mara is a rising UK girl's name. Registrations in 2024 (118) are up 188% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Mara reached its peak in 2024, when 118 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #369 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 118 represents 100% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,141 girls have been officially registered with the name Mara in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 822 girls were registered with the name, starting from 41 in 2014 and ending at 118 in 2024.