In 2025, 441 US girls were named Alara, making it the 652nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 412 places from #1,064 in 2024. That is 207 more than the 234 girls named Alara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #652, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 441. For comparison, it was #3,479 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alara in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 6 babies. In all, 2,183 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,213 babies named Alara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,548 US girls were named Alara; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 441. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,645 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alara ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #236 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alora (11,893 babies since 1880) and Alaura (1,826 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Allaura, Aylarae and Alaurah are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.