Alorah
Alorah was given to 83 girls in 2025, #2,214 among girls’ names; 686 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alorah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alorah?
#2,214 among girls’ names, 2025
Alorah rose from #6,470 in 2015 to #2,214 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.6 to 51.6 per million.
83 babies in 2025, the peak
Alorah peaked in 2025, when 83 girls were given it, #2,214 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 50 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,214 | 51.6 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,176 | 30.9 |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,354 | 48.0 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,034 | 32.9 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,020 | 21.9 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,173 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,450 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,668 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,056 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 21 | #5,997 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,470 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,172 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,602 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,226 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,133 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,392 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,718 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,551 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,409 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,867 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,913 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,742 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,223 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,309 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,217 | 6.7 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,438 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,164 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,823 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,619 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,564 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alorah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alorah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alorah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alorah, and how old are they?
An estimated 681 Americans named Alorah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 329 people named Alorah (325 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 365 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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).
How common is the spelling Alorah?
Alorah is a less common spelling of Alora: SSA has recorded 686 Alorah and 11,893 Alora since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,007 babies since 1880, Alorah is the third most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 2,273 babies (3.7%), again the third 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 Alorah
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.
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