Alara
#652 for girls in 2025, 441 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 441 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,183since 1989
Alara over time
Rank among girls' names. Alara has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #652 | 441 |
| 2024 | #1,064 | 234 |
| 2023 | #1,292 | 177 |
| 2022 | #1,506 | 144 |
| 2021 | #1,730 | 119 |
| 2020 | #1,948 | 98 |
| 2019 | #1,569 | 136 |
| 2018 | #1,997 | 98 |
| 2017 | #2,713 | 63 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 |
| 2015 | #3,478 | 45 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 |
| 2013 | #4,002 | 37 |
| 2012 | #3,094 | 54 |
| 2011 | #3,350 | 48 |
| 2010 | #3,306 | 49 |
| 2009 | #3,870 | 40 |
| 2008 | #4,448 | 34 |
| 2007 | #4,299 | 35 |
| 2006 | #4,685 | 30 |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 |
| 2003 | #4,307 | 30 |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 |
| 2001 | #5,174 | 22 |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 |
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| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alara! It came in at #10,847, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1992, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Alara is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#1,074 · 1 in 5,826
- Texas#1,256 · 1 in 8,050
- Florida#1,440 · 1 in 10,057
- New York#1,514 · 1 in 9,948
- California#1,625 · 1 in 12,444
Best ever in a state: #235 in Nevada, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #1,074 | 5 | 1 in 5,826 |
| Texas | #1,256 | 19 | 1 in 8,050 |
| Florida | #1,440 | 8 | 1 in 10,057 |
| New York | #1,514 | 8 | 1 in 9,948 |
| California | #1,625 | 14 | 1 in 12,444 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alara
- 412 spots since 2024 (#1,064 → #652)
- 1,296 spots since 2020 (#1,948 → #652)
- 2,826 spots since 2015 (#3,478 → #652)
- Biggest jump: 412 spots in 2025 (#1,064 → #652)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2025 at #652 (441 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,645 girls born in 2025 were named Alara (0.03%)
- 55.6% of all girls named Alara (1,213) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 6 | #10,847 (1989) | #10,847 |
| 1990s | 64 | #7,104 (1998) | #9,408 |
| 2000s | 295 | #3,870 (2009) | #4,621 |
| 2010s | 605 | #1,569 (2019) | #3,144 |
| 2020s | 1,213 | #652 (2025) | #1,365 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alara in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
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1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 16,495 of them was named Alara, which outranked 88.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
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- #1,924Raeleigh99
- #1,924Taelynn99
- #1,948Alara98
- #1,948Arabelle98
- #1,948Brisa98
- #1,948Delylah98
- #1,959Aries97
- #1,959Ellia97
- #1,959Indiana97
Tied with 10 names at #1,948; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.