Alera
#11,983 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alera has been given to 298 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #11,983 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Alera, 2025
1 in 474,000
Alera over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Alera?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,983
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alera sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Aleras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alera was born before 2010 — so the typical Alera is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 45.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 298
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (134).
Is Alera 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
- +242
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,694
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,800
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.70×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 36.8%
- Peak was 2005 (19)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.1% average annual change
Spellings of Alera
Alera is not the most common spelling — Clara is, with 11.9% against Alera's 0.01%.
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.
Alera around the world
Where Alera 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.
- France2007–2007#5,613in 2007
- Canada2013–2013#3,199in 2013
- South Australia2009–2009#535in 2009
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Alera by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alera
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Alera
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.