Karrah
Feminine
Karrah puts two devices on a four-letter sound — a doubled consonant and a silent ending — and underneath them three different languages have a claim on it.
How old is the name Karrah?
Karrah first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Karrah alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 800 people named Karrah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Karrah most popular?
Karrah peaked in 1992, reaching #2830 nationally. See the whole 1992 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Karrah
The two devices do opposite jobs. A doubled consonant is a real spelling rule in English — it keeps the vowel before it short, which is why supper and super differ by one letter — so doubling here makes a genuine claim about how to say the first syllable. The silent ending makes no claim at all: it cannot be heard, it changes nothing, and its only function is to make the written name longer and less ordinary. Most heavily respelled names combine the two kinds, one letter doing linguistic work and another doing decorative work, and it is worth knowing which is which before choosing.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The sound belongs to Cara, which is dear in Italian and friend in Irish; to Kara, which is black in Turkish; and to Ciara, an Irish name about darkness. The spelling points at none of them, and the record does not record an intention.
Pronouncing Karrah
KAR-uh
Two syllables, stress at the front. The final h is silent.
Nicknames for Karrah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 199242 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2830reached in 1992
- Change vs 2020
- −28.6%5 in 2022, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Karrahs among us
people named Karrah are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Karrah sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is short and read correctly on sight in spite of the spelling.
- The sound is warm and familiar everywhere.
- It is genuinely rare in this spelling.
- Cara, Kara and Ciara are all standard and hers will be written as one of them.
- The silent letter is one more thing to correct.
- Three languages claim the sound and none of them claims this spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Karrahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Karrah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Karrah in 2025?
- Karrah is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Karrah with classmates?
- Karrah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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