Highest ever

Alara

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#652
441 girls
2015
#3,479
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Alara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 441 in 2025. Its best rank was #652 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Alara in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#652 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
441
Since 1880
2,183
Years on record
34

Babies named Alara, every year since 1880

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Girls

Alara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 441 girls in 2025. Peak: #652 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 441 (2025).

About the name Alara

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

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Allaura (37), Aylarae (6), Alaurah (5).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Alara in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Alara by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 24 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Nevada11#236—
Florida54#329—
Maryland11#459—
Oklahoma8#484—
New Jersey15#499—
Virginia15#520—
South Carolina9#521—
California59#548#2,502
New York30#550—
Kentucky7#571—
Colorado9#585—
Pennsylvania17#595—
Texas51#615—
Oregon5#623—
Indiana9#652—
Wisconsin6#703—
Michigan10#739—
Arizona8#751—
Massachusetts6#763—
Louisiana5#781—
North Carolina11#837—
Minnesota5#842—
Tennessee7#891—
Georgia9#986—
Illinois8#1,019—
Washington5#1,058—
Ohio7#1,140—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025441#652——
2024234#1,064——
2023177#1,293——
2022144#1,507——
2021119#1,730——
202098#1,948——
2019136#1,569——
201898#1,997——
201763#2,713——
201638#3,929——
201545#3,479——
201437#4,006——
201337#4,007——
201254#3,098——
201148#3,354——
201049#3,311——
200940#3,873——
200834#4,454——
200735#4,301——
200630#4,690——
200524#5,274——
200430#4,495——
200330#4,312——
200230#4,183——
200122#5,185——
200020#5,498——
199913#7,252——
199813#7,117——
19977#10,877——
199610#8,161——
19958#9,586——
19945#13,483——
19938#9,581——
19896#10,878——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).