Lazara
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lazara has been given to 175 babies in the U.S. since 1923. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1984, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Lazara, 2022
1 in 677,000
Lazara 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lazara?
Lazara had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 328,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lazara sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lazara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lazaras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lazara was born before 1982 — so the typical Lazara is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 30.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 22.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 157
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (53).
Is Lazara 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1984 (10)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.1% average annual change
Spellings of Lazara
Lazara is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 73.0% against Lazara's 0.02%.
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 Lazara is used
Across 1910–2025, Lazara was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 883,515 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
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. Lazara has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lazara around the world
Where Lazara 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.
- South Australia2008–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lazara by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lazara
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lazara
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.