Allure
Allure was given to 26 girls in 2025, #4,992 among girls’ names; 594 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Allure by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Allure?
#4,992 among girls’ names, 2025
Allure rose from #6,249 in 2015 to #4,992 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.2 to 16.2 per million.
41 babies in 2023, the peak
Allure peaked in 2023, when 41 girls were given it, #3,709 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,992 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,042 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,709 | 25.6 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,299 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,248 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,757 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,349 | 19.1 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,805 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,926 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,918 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,249 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,070 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,025 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,902 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,749 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,231 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,916 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,113 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,749 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,368 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,263 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,503 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,360 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,307 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,214 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,049 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,258 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,639 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,425 | 10.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Allure a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Allure has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 29 years of records.
Girls and boys named Allure: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Allure, and how old are they?
An estimated 589 Americans named Allure and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 311 people named Allure (299 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 397 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,943 babies since 1880, Allure is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 218 babies (12%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Allure
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 Allure and names like it
- Compare Allure and AlauraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Allure.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Allure alive today were born 2013-2025.
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