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Allegra

#3,978 in 2025Girls' name

Cheerful

Allegra has been given to 4,732 babies in the U.S. since 1902. In 2025 it ranked #3,978 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 154 recorded.

Babies named Allegra, 2025

1 in 92,100

Allegra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Allegra: meaning, origin, and history

Cheerful

Italian

What Allegra means

Allegra means “cheerful”, associated with allegra.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Italian allegra (“cheerful”), inspired by the musical term allegro.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Allegra (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Allegra is used in English and Italian. Its origins include Italian.

Allegra comes through Italian allegra.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Allegra is pronounced /əˈlɛɡrə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,732 girls were recorded with the name Allegra between 1902 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 154 in 1988; its best national rank was #1,044 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,714 in 2020 to #3,978 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,340 in 2015 to #3,978 in 2025.

How common is Allegra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 44,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,978
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Allegra 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Allegra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Allegras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Allegra was born before 1993 — so the typical Allegra is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,163
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (1,196).

Is Allegra 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
−218
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,264
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,638
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.4%
Peak was 1988 (154)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,044
1988

Spellings of Allegra

Allegra is the most-used spelling, taking 43.8% of the 10,792 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Allegra is used

Across 1910–2025, Allegra was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 64,475 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2New York1 in 25,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 50,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 100,000
  7. 7District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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. Allegra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Allegra around the world

Where Allegra 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
    1996–2025
    #747
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2018
    #680
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2008–2019
    #871
    in 2019
  • France
    1978–2025
    #2,942
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,349
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2013
    #205
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Allegra

People whose public names include Allegra, 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.

Allegra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,978
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,264
Best rank ever
#1,044
1988
Peak year
1988
154 that year
First recorded
1902
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,732
Count in 2025
36

Names similar to Allegra

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

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Names with a curve like Allegra

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

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Sibling names for Allegra

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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