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.
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