Lara vs Larence
American parents have registered 30,202 Laras since 1880, against 1,096 Larences. Lara is still ahead, with 409 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Lara Larence
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
Of the 130 years in which either name was published, Lara for 96 years and Larence for 34 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.
- 1887–1913 Lara ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1914–1949 Larence ahead, apart from 4 short spells
- 1950–2025 Lara ahead
6 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Lara | Larence | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 30,202 | 1,096 |
| Most in one year | 1,360 | 37 |
| Babies in 2025 | 409 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 28,000 | 330 |
| Median age today | 40 | 69 |
| Peak year | 1969 | 1927 |
| Best rank | 222nd girls | 1,178th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 691st | unranked |
| First recorded | 1887 | 1886 |
| Girls / boys | 30,168 / 34 | 0 / 1,096 |
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 Larences alive today are over 69; half the Laras are over 40. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lara and Larence.