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Alara

#652 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Alara has been given to 2,183 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #652 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 441 recorded.

Babies named Alara, 2025

1 in 7,520

Alara over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alara: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alara means

Alara is a given name.

The naming story behind Alara

Wikidata records Alara as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q20001189, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,183 girls were recorded with the name Alara between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 441 in 2025; its best national rank was #652 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,948 in 2020 to #652 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,479 in 2015 to #652 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Alara?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,520
441 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,640
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#652
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,212 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alara sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,212 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alaras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alara was born before 2021 — so the typical Alara is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
55.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,183
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 55.6% of all recorded uses (1,213).

Is Alara rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+412
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,296
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,827
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
9.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (441)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#652
2025

Spellings of Alara

Alara is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 21.5% against Alara's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alara is used

Across 2016–2025, Alara was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 11,412 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

217 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 5,882
  2. 2Maryland1 in 8,333
  3. 3New York1 in 8,333
  4. 4California1 in 9,091
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 9,091
  6. 6Nevada1 in 9,091
  7. 7Texas1 in 10,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 10,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Alara around the world

Where Alara ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #312
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2025
    #359
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2019–2025
    #161
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #4,526
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #586
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Alara

People whose public names include Alara, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Alara by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#652
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,296
Best rank ever
#652
2025
Peak year
2025
441 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,183
Count in 2025
441

Names similar to Alara

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Alara

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alara, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Alara

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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