Alara

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Alara: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Alara: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #179, and it stood at #544 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#179highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
1999	#3225
2000	#2746
2001	#2023
2002	#3409
2003	#3099
2004	#2278
2005	#1796
2006	#1153
2007	#1102
2008	#1065
2009	#1083
2010	#965
2011	#1327
2012	#857
2013	#813
2014	#1204
2015	#831
2016	#861
2017	#785
2018	#729
2019	#584
2020	#571
2021	#491
2022	#366
2023	#338
2024	#295

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 27 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #179 among girls in Northern Ireland, #295 among girls in England and Wales, #441 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #476 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3824 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2019–2024
Highest recorded position: #179 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2019–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #544 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Alara appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 1,140 births with the name.

Alara across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Alara's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3824 (1997)	#295 (2024)	#295 (2024)	27 of 28	1,140 (1997–2024)	150 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#910 (2010)	#441 (2024)	#544 (2025)	3 of 16	17 (2010–2025)	8 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#336 (2019)	#179 (2024)	#179 (2024)	6 of 6	41 (2019–2024)	10 (2022)

Alara by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Alara in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	2 of 10	4
2000s	148	10 of 10	15
2010s	437	10 of 10	44
2020sbusiest	548	5 of 10	110

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 110 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2021 and 2022, when recorded births rose by 30, from 86 to 116.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Alara appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #179 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Alara's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#295	150	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#338	127	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#366	116	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#491	86	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#571	69	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#584	68	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#729	54	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#785	50	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#861	43	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#831	45	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1204	28	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#813	47	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#857	44	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1327	23	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#965	35	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1083	29	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1065	28	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1102	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1153	23	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#179	10	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#209	8	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#183	10	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#281	5	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#336	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	8	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#476	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #179, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 150 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 27 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Alarna · #1094, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Amelia-Rose · #179, 26y
Belle · #179, 30y
Bria · #179, 29y
Gia · #179, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Amelia-Rose · #179, 26y
Belle · #179, 30y
Bria · #179, 29y
Gia · #179, 27y

Alara was ranked #179 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Alara and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Alara without appearing here.

Alara moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3099 and #3099 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1153 and #4157.
Cecilie Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3099 and #3099 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1796 and #4798.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1796 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1153 and #3548.
Kristine Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2278 and #2278 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1153 and #3548.

Moved ahead of Alara

Harper Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1083 and #1171 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #965 and #930.

Moved the opposite way to Alara

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alara went from #3824 to #295 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alara went from #3824 to #295 while Aimee went from #61 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alara went from #3824 to #295 while Aisling went from #496 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alara went from #3824 to #295 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Alara

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alara went from #3824 to #295 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alara went from #3824 to #295 and Alma from #2411 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alara went from #3824 to #295 and Alyssa from #506 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alara went from #3824 to #295 and Amalie from #3824 to #1128.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #179 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Alara

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alara across 3 official records

Alara by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Alara across 3 official records

Alara by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Names published alongside Alara

Alara and the names beside it

Alara moved ahead of

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