Girls' name · since 1981
Larah
222 babies named Larah in U.S. Social Security records since 1981, with the highest year being 2009. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #18,760 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,447 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 222
- born since 1981
- 2000s
- peak decade
Larah currently ranks #15447 among girls' names in America, with 222 babies recorded since 1981.
Larah has 222 recorded births among girls since 1981, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15447 as of the latest data, more common than 11% 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 1981 to 2025.
- #18,760 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,447 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 222 born since 1981
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Larah ranks #18,760 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,447 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 222 born since 1981, peaking in the 2000s.
- #18,760 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,447 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 222
- born since 1981
- 2000s
- peak decade
Larah's 222 recorded births place it above 74.03% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Larah compares
222 39th 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
Larah's all-time total is 41% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Larah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 222 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Larah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Larah's full recorded timeline at 2004, 55% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 45% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1981, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2009 peak of 12 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Larah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1981–2025
- Peak year (2009)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 45 years of records
Larah by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (86 births, 39% of the file).
2000s was Larah's strongest decade.
86 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 39% of all-time use.
Larah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 26
1980s
26 births
- 1990s
1990s
44 births
- 2000s
2000s
86 births
- 2010s
2010s
51 births
- 2020s 15
2020s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 86 births (39% of all-time use).
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- Larah's decade-level peak was the 2000s (86 total births); usage has since declined to 15 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 Larah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2009)
Similar record span (~44 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, 1981–2025 (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 Larah 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.