Alera
Alera was given to 7 girls in 2025, #11,983 among girls’ names; 298 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alera?
#11,983 among girls’ names, 2025
Alera fell from #10,183 in 2015 to #11,983 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 4.4 per million.
19 babies in 2005, the peak
Alera peaked in 2005, when 19 girls were given it, #6,258 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,983 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,225 | 4.3 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,297 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,386 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,289 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,519 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,529 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,734 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,669 | 10.2 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,183 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #9,548 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,385 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,135 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,217 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,248 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,474 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,108 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,025 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,158 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,258 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,728 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,535 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,288 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,962 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,816 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,238 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alera, and how old are they?
An estimated 295 Americans named Alera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 253 people named Alera (247 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 263 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,012 babies since 1880, Alera is the eighth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 2,281 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Alera
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 Alera and names like it
- Compare Alera and AloraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlera peaked in 2005.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Alera.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alera alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.