Alara
Alara was given to 441 girls in 2025, #652 among girls’ names; 2,183 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,170 Americans named Alara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 13.
Alara climbed 412 places in 2025, the #10 climb among the girls’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alara?
#652 among girls’ names, 2025
Alara rose from #3,479 in 2015 to #652 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.03 to 0.27 per 1,000.
441 babies in 2025, the peak
Alara peaked in 2025, when 441 girls were given it, #652 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 234 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 441 | #652 | 0.27 |
| 2024 | 234 | #1,064 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 177 | #1,293 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 144 | #1,507 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 119 | #1,730 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 98 | #1,948 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 136 | #1,569 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 98 | #1,997 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,713 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,929 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #3,479 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,004 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,005 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,097 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,353 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,310 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,872 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,453 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,300 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,689 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,269 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,491 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,308 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,179 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,180 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,493 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,246 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,111 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,872 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,156 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,581 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,477 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,575 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,872 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alara, and how old are they?
2,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,183 Americans ever recorded as Alara. The median Alara alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 937 people named Alara (931 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 988 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 36 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 474 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,660 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alara born?
The states with the most babies named Alara are California, Florida and Texas, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 59 | #548 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 54 | #329 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 51 | #615 | 0.7× |
| New York | 30 | #550 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #595 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #499 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 15 | #520 | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 11 | #459 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #837 | 0.3× |
| Nevada | 11 | #236 | 0.6× |
Where Alara is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alara is most over-represented in Florida: since 1989 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alara with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,111 babies since 1880, Alara is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 441 of their 2,330 babies (19%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alara
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alara and names like it
- Compare Alara and AloraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAlara peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alara since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Alara.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alara alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.