Alara
#652 for girls in 2025, 441 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 441 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,183since 1989
Alara over time
Rank among girls' names. Alara has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #652 | 441 |
| 2024 | #1,064 | 234 |
| 2023 | #1,292 | 177 |
| 2022 | #1,506 | 144 |
| 2021 | #1,730 | 119 |
| 2020 | #1,948 | 98 |
| 2019 | #1,569 | 136 |
| 2018 | #1,997 | 98 |
| 2017 | #2,713 | 63 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 |
| 2015 | #3,478 | 45 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 |
| 2013 | #4,002 | 37 |
| 2012 | #3,094 | 54 |
| 2011 | #3,350 | 48 |
| 2010 | #3,306 | 49 |
| 2009 | #3,870 | 40 |
| 2008 | #4,448 | 34 |
| 2007 | #4,299 | 35 |
| 2006 | #4,685 | 30 |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 |
| 2003 | #4,307 | 30 |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 |
| 2001 | #5,174 | 22 |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 |
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| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alara! It came in at #10,847, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1992, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Alara is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,485 · 1 in 25,668
Best ever in a state: #235 in Nevada, 2025.
Show every state
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| California | #2,485 | 8 | 1 in 25,668 |
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See more about Alara
- 412 spots since 2024 (#1,064 → #652)
- 1,296 spots since 2020 (#1,948 → #652)
- 2,826 spots since 2015 (#3,478 → #652)
- Biggest jump: 412 spots in 2025 (#1,064 → #652)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2025 at #652 (441 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,645 girls born in 2025 were named Alara (0.03%)
- 55.6% of all girls named Alara (1,213) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 6 | #10,847 (1989) | #10,847 |
| 1990s | 64 | #7,104 (1998) | #9,408 |
| 2000s | 295 | #3,870 (2009) | #4,621 |
| 2010s | 605 | #1,569 (2019) | #3,144 |
| 2020s | 1,213 | #652 (2025) | #1,365 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alara in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
More about 2015
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1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 39,669 of them was named Alara, which outranked 81.8% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,429Tamya46
- #3,429Victory46
- #3,429Yanet46
- #3,478Alara45
- #3,478Acadia45
- #3,478Alayiah45
- #3,478Alaysha45
- #3,533Abree44
- #3,533Ahri44
- #3,533Aine44
Tied with 54 names at #3,478; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.