Girls' name · since 1999
Alera
Alera has 298 recorded births since 1999 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2005 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #15,945 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,481 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 298
- born since 1999
- 2000s
- peak decade
Alera currently ranks #12481 among girls' names in America, with 298 babies recorded since 1999.
Alera has 298 recorded births among girls since 1999, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #12481 as of the latest data, more common than 28% of girls, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1999 to 2025.
- #15,945 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,481 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 298 born since 1999
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Alera ranks #15,945 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,481 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 298 born since 1999, peaking in the 2000s.
- #15,945 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,481 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 298
- born since 1999
- 2000s
- peak decade
Alera's 298 recorded births place it above 77.91% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Alera compares
298 45th 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
Alera's all-time total is 21% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Alera | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 298 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 19 | 21 | 19,840 |
Alera's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Alera's full recorded timeline at 2012, 43% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 57% 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 2005 peak of 19 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Alera popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–2025
- Peak year (2005)
- 19
- Annual births at peak, across 27 years of records
Alera by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (134 births, 45% of the file).
2000s was Alera's strongest decade.
134 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 45% of all-time use.
Alera births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 11
1990s
11 births
- 2000s
2000s
134 births
- 2010s
2010s
118 births
- 2020s 35
2020s
35 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 134 births (45% of all-time use).
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- Alera's decade-level peak was the 2000s (134 total births); usage has since declined to 35 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Alera: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2005)
Similar record span (~26 yrs)
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, 1999–2025 (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 Alera 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.