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Alora vs Alorah

American parents have registered 11,893 Aloras since 1880, against 686 Alorahs. Alora is still ahead, with 1,614 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alora against Alorah, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alora Alorah

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Alora has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1918 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Alora had 157 and Alorah had 24.

Side by side

  Alora Alorah
Total US births 11,893686
Most in one year 1,61483
Babies in 2025 1,61483
Estimated living today 12,000680
Median age today 46
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 195th girls2,214th girls
Rank in 2025 195th2,214th
First recorded 19181995
Girls / boys 11,893 / 0686 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Alorahs alive today are over 6; half the Aloras are over 4. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Alora Alorah
England and Wales 80524
Scotland 663

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alora and Alorah.