Alara

What Alara means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Alara yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #3,478 in 2015, #652 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Alara?

US: Rising: up from #3478 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #831 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 441 girls got the name (#652 that year). First in the US records in 1989.

How common

• About 1 in 3,645 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,822 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,988 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NV (1.2 per 1,000 girls), FL (0.62 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.55 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Alara is #652 in the US and #312 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Alara were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Alora1,614 US · 173 E&W
• Elora861 US · 201 E&W
• Elara275 US · 127 E&W
• Alorah83 US · 5 E&W
• Alaira19 US · 48 E&W
• Aloura56 US
• Elira34 US · 12 E&W
• Allura43 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Alara

Girls

• Emerson#122Editor’s note Used for both: 62% of US babies named Emerson in 2025 were girls
• Saylor#217“dancer, acrobat”^*
• Haven#190Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Aspen#266Editor’s note Used for both: 82% of US babies named Aspen in 2025 were girls
• Josie#82Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #250 in 2015, #82 in 2025
• Sage#160“sedge”^*

For a brother

• Legend#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #391 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Zayn#251“beauty”^*
• Jonah#128“dove”^*
• Koa#269Hawaiian, meaning “warrior, courage; koa tree”^*
• River#111From the word “river”^*
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Alara’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.