Girl

Allegra

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#3,979
36 girls
2015
#2,340
rank
1950
#2,655
rank

Allegra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,045 in 1988.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #1,045 in 1988; #3,979 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Allegra in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#3,979 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #1,045.

Babies in 2025
36
Since 1880
4,732
Years on record
116

Babies named Allegra, every year since 1880

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Girls

Allegra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,045 in 1988 · most girls in one year: 154 (1988).

About the name Allegra

In 2025, 36 US girls were named Allegra, making it the 3,979th most common girls’ name of the year, down 219 places from #3,760 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 40 girls named Allegra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,045, reached in 1988. That year also had the most girls given the name: 154. For comparison, it was #2,340 in 2015 and #2,655 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Allegra in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1902 with 5 babies. In all, 4,732 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,196 babies named Allegra.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 514 US girls were named Allegra; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,646 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Rarer spellings such as Alegra 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 English and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

No related spellings pass our data threshold.

Rare spellings summarised here: Alegra (386).

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 Allegra in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

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

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202536#3,979——
202440#3,760——
202354#3,047——
202247#3,369——
202144#3,494——
202061#2,714——
201954#3,003——
201854#3,006——
201771#2,510——
201653#3,100——
201579#2,340——
201469#2,560——
201356#2,976——
201258#2,937——
201176#2,417——
2010116#1,769——
2009101#2,029——
200892#2,172——
200784#2,293——
200663#2,780——
200548#3,212——
200426#4,954——
200338#3,662——
200233#3,893——
200151#2,846——
200070#2,239——
199994#1,719——
1998142#1,272——
1997152#1,194——
1996129#1,318——
1995144#1,187——
199494#1,608——
1993113#1,426——
1992122#1,357——
1991101#1,537——
1990105#1,479——
1989113#1,354——
1988154#1,045——
198764#1,812——
198648#2,170——
198558#1,906——
198451#1,991——
198344#2,198——
198237#2,534——
198151#2,028——
198056#1,904——
197946#2,150——
197837#2,390——
197744#2,124——
197654#1,747——
197543#2,024——
197433#2,348——
197351#1,732——
197234#2,224——
197136#2,212——
197041#2,018——
196928#2,455——
196829#2,247——
196718#2,966——
196617#3,043——
196516#3,150——
196413#3,695——
196321#2,706——
196217#3,036——
196116#3,191——
196014#3,358——
195913#3,439——
19587#4,897——
195713#3,313——
195616#2,929——
19559#4,073——
19546#5,161——
195314#2,922——
19529#3,811——
19517#4,395——
195015#2,655——
19499#3,621——
19489#3,596——
19478#4,014——
194613#2,744——
19459#3,138——
19447#3,692——
194313#2,562——
194212#2,669——
194113#2,401——
19408#3,216——
19399#2,927——
193810#2,736——
193710#2,738——
19369#2,862——
193512#2,441——
193416#2,004——
193314#2,163——
19328#3,281——
193115#2,111——
193015#2,203——
192911#2,742——
192815#2,285——
192718#2,097——
192623#1,773——
192517#2,197——
192413#2,666——
192320#1,946——
192216#2,296——
192116#2,286——
192025#1,668——
191923#1,699——
191824#1,646——
191725#1,508——
191626#1,445——
191529#1,318——
191410#2,271——
191314#1,604——
19127#2,365——
191113#1,303——
19025#1,800——

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).