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Alora

#195 in 2025Girls' name

My dream

Alora has been given to 11,893 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #195 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 1,614 recorded.

Babies named Alora, 2025

1 in 2,050

Alora over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05001K1.5K2K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alora: meaning, origin, and history

My dream

Bantu languages

What Alora means

Alora means “my dream”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Botswana, it means "my dream" in the Bantu languages.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Alora is used in English. Its origins include Bantu languages.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,893 girls were recorded with the name Alora between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,614 in 2025; its best national rank was #195 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #599 in 2020 to #195 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,204 in 2015 to #195 in 2025.

How common is Alora?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 2,050
1,614 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 996
0.10% of girls
Rank, 2025
#195
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
1,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alora 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 301%
Grade of 1005%
School of 50022%

Put another way: gather 1,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alora. In a class of 30 the chance is 1%.

When Aloras were born

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

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
57.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,839
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 57.4% of all recorded uses (6,830).

Is Alora 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
+29
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+404
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,009
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
7.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (1,614)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#195
2025

Spellings of Alora

Alora is not the most common spelling — Gloria is, with 14.0% against Alora's 0.40%.

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 Alora is used

Across 2016–2025, Alora was most concentrated in Alaska — about 1 in 565 girls, against 1 in 1,753 across all states with data. It was least common in New Hampshire (1 in 3,226).

31177 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alaska1 in 565
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 775
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 1,124
  4. 4Delaware1 in 1,136
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 1,190
  6. 6Georgia1 in 1,205
  7. 7Alabama1 in 1,266
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 1,299

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.

Geographically, Alora is used remarkably evenly across the country — more concentrated than 16% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Alora around the world

Where Alora 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
    2003–2025
    #265
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2025
    #217
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2025
    #161
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2025
    #304
    in 2025
  • France
    2023–2025
    #4,301
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #257
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Alora by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#195
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 404
Best rank ever
#195
2025
Peak year
2025
1,614 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,893
Count in 2025
1,614

Names similar to Alora

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

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Names with a curve like Alora

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

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Sibling names for Alora

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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