Meaning not yet researched.
Lara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 409 in 2025. Its best rank was #223 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #223 in 1969; #693 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#693 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #223.
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Lara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 409 girls in 2025. Peak: #223 in 1969 · most girls in one year: 1,354 (1969).
In 2025, 409 US girls were named Lara, making it the 693rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 48 places from #741 in 2024. That is 29 more than the 380 girls named Lara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #223, reached in 1969. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,354. For comparison, it was #813 in 2015 and #2,495 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lara in 129 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1887 with 5 babies. In all, 30,202 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 7,617 babies named Lara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,935 US girls were named Lara; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 427. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,930 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lara ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #327 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Laura (804,390 babies since 1880), Lora (52,484 babies since 1880), Larissa (23,498 babies since 1880) and Larae (3,426 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Larina, Laraya and Delara are summarised on this page.
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 Dutch, German, Italian, Romanian, Slovene, Spanish and Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Larina (450), Laraya (311), Delara (228), Laraina (84), Larsa (31), Laraye (5), Laraea (5), Laraia (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.
No nicknames listed for Lara in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 18 | #327 | #500 |
| Florida | 54 | #338 | #476 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #368 | #545 |
| Illinois | 28 | #369 | #592 |
| New York | 44 | #399 | #492 |
| Washington | 15 | #470 | #738 |
| Virginia | 15 | #529 | #539 |
| New Jersey | 14 | #550 | #347 |
| California | 53 | #602 | #785 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #653 | — |
| Michigan | 12 | #663 | #870 |
| Utah | 6 | #664 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #845 | #657 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #857 | #928 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #873 | #1,178 |
| Texas | 33 | #890 | #1,167 |
| Georgia | 11 | #890 | #1,257 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #929 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #950 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,597 | #1,234 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 409 | #693 | — | — |
| 2024 | 380 | #741 | — | — |
| 2023 | 384 | #731 | — | — |
| 2022 | 424 | #695 | — | — |
| 2021 | 427 | #681 | — | — |
| 2020 | 396 | #710 | — | — |
| 2019 | 413 | #702 | — | — |
| 2018 | 359 | #761 | — | — |
| 2017 | 365 | #762 | — | — |
| 2016 | 378 | #756 | — | — |
| 2015 | 345 | #813 | — | — |
| 2014 | 337 | #821 | — | — |
| 2013 | 295 | #876 | — | — |
| 2012 | 313 | #855 | — | — |
| 2011 | 278 | #930 | — | — |
| 2010 | 301 | #881 | — | — |
| 2009 | 287 | #933 | — | — |
| 2008 | 292 | #933 | — | — |
| 2007 | 290 | #932 | — | — |
| 2006 | 322 | #834 | — | — |
| 2005 | 319 | #811 | — | — |
| 2004 | 359 | #735 | — | — |
| 2003 | 349 | #736 | — | — |
| 2002 | 402 | #635 | — | — |
| 2001 | 336 | #725 | — | — |
| 2000 | 262 | #848 | — | — |
| 1999 | 278 | #789 | — | — |
| 1998 | 259 | #823 | — | — |
| 1997 | 242 | #847 | — | — |
| 1996 | 271 | #776 | — | — |
| 1995 | 260 | #773 | — | — |
| 1994 | 287 | #725 | — | — |
| 1993 | 276 | #753 | — | — |
| 1992 | 353 | #640 | — | — |
| 1991 | 379 | #594 | — | — |
| 1990 | 442 | #539 | 6 | #7,707 |
| 1989 | 480 | #489 | — | — |
| 1988 | 558 | #420 | — | — |
| 1987 | 539 | #413 | — | — |
| 1986 | 538 | #409 | — | — |
| 1985 | 487 | #449 | — | — |
| 1984 | 508 | #420 | — | — |
| 1983 | 514 | #422 | 6 | #5,915 |
| 1982 | 626 | #370 | — | — |
| 1981 | 583 | #388 | — | — |
| 1980 | 579 | #393 | — | — |
| 1979 | 500 | #421 | — | — |
| 1978 | 561 | #376 | — | — |
| 1977 | 662 | #342 | — | — |
| 1976 | 775 | #294 | — | — |
| 1975 | 637 | #344 | — | — |
| 1974 | 600 | #360 | — | — |
| 1973 | 662 | #334 | — | — |
| 1972 | 830 | #296 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,053 | #273 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,332 | #235 | 5 | #5,128 |
| 1969 | 1,354 | #223 | 6 | #4,197 |
| 1968 | 1,295 | #227 | — | — |
| 1967 | 945 | #277 | 6 | #3,790 |
| 1966 | 236 | #619 | — | — |
| 1965 | 65 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1964 | 57 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1963 | 78 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1962 | 61 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1961 | 55 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 1960 | 49 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,455 | — | — |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,679 | — | — |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,495 | — | — |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,678 | — | — |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,452 | — | — |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,154 | — | — |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,544 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,532 | — | — |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,007 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,318 | — | — |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,472 | — | — |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,822 | — | — |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,669 | — | — |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,835 | — | — |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,784 | — | — |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,332 | — | — |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,034 | — | — |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,413 | — | — |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,578 | — | — |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,753 | 5 | #4,510 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,835 | — | — |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,192 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,405 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,023 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,594 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,226 | — | — |
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).