Lara vs Larene
American parents have registered 30,202 Laras since 1880, against 866 Larenes. Lara is still ahead, with 409 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Lara Larene
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 129 years in which either name was published, Lara for 107 years and Larene for 22 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1887–1912 Lara ahead
- 1917–1923 Larene ahead
- 1924–1932 Lara ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1937–1939 Larene ahead
- 1950–2025 Lara ahead, apart from one short spell
14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Lara | Larene | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 30,202 | 866 |
| Most in one year | 1,360 | 27 |
| Babies in 2025 | 409 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 28,000 | 330 |
| Median age today | 40 | 71 |
| Peak year | 1969 | 1929 |
| Best rank | 222nd girls | 1,487th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 691st | unranked |
| First recorded | 1887 | 1909 |
| Girls / boys | 30,168 / 34 | 866 / 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 Larenes alive today are over 71; half the Laras are over 40. That is 31 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.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lara and Larene.