Girls' name · since 2012
Alarah
Alarah has 60 recorded births since 2012 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #32,785 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,343 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 60
- born since 2012
- 2020s
- peak decade
60 babies have been named Alarah since 2012, making it today's #9343 girls' name.
Alarah has 60 recorded births among girls since 2012, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #9343 as of the latest data, more common than 46% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2012 to 2025.
- #32,785 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,343 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 60 born since 2012
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Alarah ranks #32,785 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,343 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 60 born since 2012, peaking in the 2020s.
- #32,785 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,343 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 60
- born since 2012
- 2020s
- peak decade
Alarah's 60 recorded births place it above 54.42% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Alarah compares
60 18th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Alarah's all-time total is 84% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Alarah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 60 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 11 | 21 | 19,840 |
Alarah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Alarah's full recorded timeline at 2022, 57% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 43% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2021, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 11 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Alarah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 14 years of records
Alarah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (39 births, 65% of the file).
2020s was Alarah's strongest decade.
39 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 65% of all-time use.
Alarah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
21 births
- 2020s
2020s
39 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 39 births (65% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2012–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Alarah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.