Given name

Ketara

Ketara is used as a given name.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Ketara isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1988. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Ketara through the years

Babies since 1880
74
0 boys · 74 girls
Most popular year
2001
31 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Ketara in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1988–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 31 in 2001.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Similar names

If you love Ketara, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Arabic · Modern

Qadira

“powerful; capable” · “a capable man; one who is competent”

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Kaidra

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Kededra

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Keviona

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Hebrew · Modern

Kerena

“horn of eye-paint”

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Kitara

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Seairah

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Kadaisha

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Ketara’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

A brother for Ketara

A sister for Ketara