Alegra

Last seen for girls in 2023 at #12,197

Peak · girls
1988 · 20 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
386
since 1952

Alegra over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Alegra has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201952peak #4,308, 1988girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
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2023#12,1977
2022#13,5926
2021#11,1468
2020—
2019#10,4739
2018#12,4647
2017#11,6158
2016#12,8767
2015#13,0067
2014#11,9318
2013#11,9698
2012#8,63213
2011#9,15012
2010#5,97722
2009#8,05815
2008#10,80710
2007#12,6768
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2002#13,5956
2001#10,1029
2000#7,58013
1999#10,3458
1998#8,58410
1997#6,16315
1996#8,13210
1995#9,5538
1994#9,5868
1993#8,05210
1992#8,7349
1991#6,25314
1990#6,86712
1989#8,7618
1988#4,30820
1987#9,8256
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1978#6,3859
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First appearance
1952

The first year at least five girls were named Alegra! It came in at #5,563, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1952–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Alegra is popular in 1952

No state had 5 or more girls named Alegra in 1952, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alegra
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
Rise & fade · girls
36 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1952
  • Peaked 1988 at #4,308 (20 births)
  • Births halved by 1989, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 80,800
  • Highest: 1 in 80,800 girls born in 2010 were named Alegra (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 229,226 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #4,308 in 1988, was only 1 in 89,043 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 26.9% of all girls named Alegra (104) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#5,563 (1952)#5,563
1960s5#7,016 (1968)#7,016
1970s41#6,048 (1976)#7,619
1980s48#4,308 (1988)#8,075
1990s104#6,163 (1997)#8,227
2000s61#7,580 (2000)#10,470
2010s101#5,977 (2010)#10,809
2020s21#11,146 (2021)#12,312

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.

Alegra in 1952

girls
#5,563
5 births · 1 in 370,867 girls

Top girls' names in 1952

  1. #1Linda67,082
  2. #2Mary65,629
  3. #3Patricia53,101
  4. #4Deborah49,811
  5. #5Susan41,348
  6. #6Barbara39,864
  7. #7Nancy31,739
  8. #8Karen28,956
  9. #9Debra26,832
  10. #10Sandra26,097
  11. #5,563Alegra5
More about 1952

girls

1,854,335 girls got a published name in 1952; 1 in 370,867 of them was named Alegra, which outranked 12.9% of the 6,389 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alegra
  1. #4,908Zanna6
  2. #4,908Zelinda6
  3. #4,908Zeta6
  4. #5,563Alegra5
  5. #5,563Adaline5
  6. #5,563Adean5
  7. #5,563Adelfa5

Tied with 826 names at #5,563; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1951
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,501Pandora#3,284 → #783
  2. ↑ 368Lise#1,314 → #946
  3. ↑ 353Vanessa#656 → #303
  4. ↑ 334Dorinda#1,170 → #836
  5. ↑ 332Mitzi#928 → #596
Fallers
  1. ↓ 380Rhona#988 → #1,368
  2. ↓ 342Sharleen#765 → #1,107
  3. ↓ 270Enid#908 → #1,178
  4. ↓ 237Allyn#988 → #1,225
  5. ↓ 230Sheron#908 → #1,138

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1952 →