In 2025, 11 US girls were named Larae, making it the 9,207th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,664 places from #6,543 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 18 girls named Larae in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #985, reached in 1936. The most girls given the name in a single year was 76, in 1975. For comparison, it was #11,453 in 2015 and #1,420 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Larae in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 9 babies. In all, 3,426 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 527 babies named Larae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 166 US girls were named Larae; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Laura (804,390 babies since 1880) and Lara (30,202 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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