Larae
Larae was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,204 among girls’ names; 3,426 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,630 Americans named Larae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 34 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Larae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Larae mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Larae is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Larae?
#9,204 among girls’ names, 2025
Larae rose from #11,448 in 2015 to #9,204 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 6.8 per million.
76 babies in 1975, the peak
Larae peaked in 1975, when 76 girls were given it, #1,392 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,204 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,540 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,756 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,870 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,550 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,984 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,457 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,672 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,754 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,812 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,448 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,329 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,297 | 19.4 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,310 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,738 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,521 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,883 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,247 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,269 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,469 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,420 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,646 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,759 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,186 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,716 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,896 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,128 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,311 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,089 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,254 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,160 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,615 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,727 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,453 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,485 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,925 | 20.5 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,588 | 23.9 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,615 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,689 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,399 | 24.5 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,773 | 19.8 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,649 | 20.8 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,625 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,395 | 24.2 |
| 1981 | 52 | #2,019 | 31.2 |
| 1980 | 42 | #2,324 | 25.3 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,698 | 20.6 |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,254 | 26.8 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,748 | 19.6 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,190 | 26.6 |
| 1975 | 76 | #1,392 | 52.1 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,721 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,200 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,640 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,225 | 21.6 |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,729 | 30.3 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,858 | 26.7 |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,615 | 31.1 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,771 | 26.0 |
| 1966 | 55 | #1,501 | 32.5 |
| 1965 | 55 | #1,508 | 31.2 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,648 | 25.9 |
| 1963 | 67 | #1,358 | 34.8 |
| 1962 | 58 | #1,469 | 29.5 |
| 1961 | 48 | #1,634 | 23.8 |
| 1960 | 56 | #1,474 | 27.7 |
| 1959 | 46 | #1,604 | 22.7 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,565 | 23.4 |
| 1957 | 54 | #1,446 | 26.4 |
| 1956 | 48 | #1,539 | 23.9 |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,432 | 25.6 |
| 1954 | 49 | #1,440 | 25.2 |
| 1953 | 45 | #1,464 | 23.9 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,695 | 18.3 |
| 1951 | 56 | #1,246 | 31.1 |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,419 | 24.5 |
| 1949 | 50 | #1,293 | 29.2 |
| 1948 | 41 | #1,447 | 24.1 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,646 | 19.2 |
| 1946 | 33 | #1,542 | 21.0 |
| 1945 | 35 | #1,364 | 26.8 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,680 | 18.8 |
| 1943 | 33 | #1,451 | 23.7 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,514 | 22.2 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,518 | 22.3 |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,258 | 30.6 |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,389 | 26.4 |
| 1938 | 37 | #1,212 | 33.5 |
| 1937 | 37 | #1,187 | 34.8 |
| 1936 | 49 | #985 | 47.1 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,321 | 29.6 |
| 1934 | 40 | #1,127 | 38.3 |
| 1933 | 41 | #1,091 | 40.7 |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,307 | 30.0 |
| 1931 | 41 | #1,114 | 38.5 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,419 | 26.6 |
| 1929 | 31 | #1,379 | 27.8 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,566 | 23.4 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,428 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,907 | 17.7 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,552 | 11.5 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,230 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,826 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,434 | 12.5 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,849 | 6.5 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,331 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Larae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Larae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 106 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Larae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Larae, and how old are they?
2,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 3,426 Americans ever recorded as Larae. The median Larae alive today is 51 years old; half are between 34 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 2,561 people named Larae (2,516 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,742 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 177 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 711 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 638 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 547 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 329 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 228 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Larae born?
The states with the most babies named Larae are Utah, California and Minnesota, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah and Minnesota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 370 | not ranked | 12.1× |
| California | 132 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 125 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Idaho | 64 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| North Dakota | 31 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Iowa | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kansas | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Larae is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Larae is most over-represented in Utah: since 1919 it was given 12.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Larae with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,016,370 babies since 1880, Larae is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,318 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Larae
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 Larae and names like it
- Compare Larae and LauraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLarae peaked in 1975.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Larae since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Larae.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Larae alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.