Alara

Where Alara comes from

Alara hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 900 BC
    Alara of Nubia born
    King of Nubia before the 25th dynasty
  2. 1989
    First appearance
    #10,847 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2006
    Alara Şehitler born
    German association football player
  4. 2025
    Peak, #652
    441 babies named Alara — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Alara of Nubia · King of Nubia before the 25th dynasty, 900 BC–765 BC
  • Alara Kalama · teacher of yogic meditation and second teacher of Gautama Buddha
  • Alara Şehitler · German association football player, born 2006
  • Alara Altundağ · Turkish volleyball player, born 1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.