Lara
The girl's name Lara has been in the national records since 1887, with 30,202 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 691st. About 28,000 Laras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lara boys named Lara
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 30,202
- Estimated living today
- 28,000
- Median age today
- 40
- Peak year
- 1969
- Best rank
- 222nd
- Rank in 2025
- 691st
- First recorded
- 1887
- Girls / boys
- 30,168 / 34
How old the living Laras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 30,202 babies given the name since 1887, about 28,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 6,300 of them are children and 340 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Russian, Ukrainian
Anglicized from Russian Ла́ра, a pet form of Larissa, known from the novel (1957) and film (1965) Dr Zhivago.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Laras
- Lara Dutta (born 1978)Indian actress
- Lara Fabian (born 1970)Belgian and Canadian singer and songwriter
- Lara Flynn Boyle (born 1970)American actress
- Lara Gut-Behrami (born 1991)Swiss alpine skier
- Lara Stone (born 1983)Dutch model
- Lara Arruabarrena (born 1992)Spanish tennis player
- Lara Pulver (born 1980)English actress
- Lara-Isabelle Rentinck (born 1986)German actress
People named Lara with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lara is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lara is most concentrated in Florida (1.8×), New Jersey (1.7×), Utah (1.6×), Colorado (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1969
The most popular girls’ names the year Lara peaked:
Lara elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Lara | 21,292 | 17th |
| England and Wales girls | Lara | 13,880 | 91st |
| Italy girls | Lara | 12,696 | — |
| France girls | Lara | 12,460 | 143rd |
| Austria girls | Lara | 10,763 | 14th |
| Switzerland girls | Lara | 8,079 | 1st |
| Belgium girls | Lara | 5,731 | 19th |
| Portugal girls | Lara | 3,842 name registrations | 13th |
| Poland girls | Lara | 2,204 birth registrations | 88th |
| Ireland girls | Lara | 1,696 | 95th |
| Scotland girls | Lara | 1,690 | 88th |
| Norway girls | Lara | 711 | 128th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Lara | 679 | 51st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lara: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Lara | 6,113 | 0.491% | 1st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Lara | 1,678 | 0.386% | 3rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Lara | 259 | 0.397% | 12th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Lara | 29 | 0.780% | 1st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Lara is most concentrated in Graubünden, where 0.73% of children were given it – 278 of them.
Lara: rank by region
In 2025, Lara was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lara | 46 | 87 |
| Wallonia | Lara | 127 | 20 |
| Brussels | Lara | 47 | 17 |
In 2024, Lara was among the 10 most common names in 4 regions of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aragón | Lara | 6 | 51 |
| Principado de Asturias | Lara | 8 | 32 |
| Extremadura | Lara | 9 | 52 |
| Galicia | Lara | 6 | 95 |
In 2022, Lara was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Lara | 10 | 2 |
In 2025, Lara was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Lara | 103 | 13 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Lara | 102 | 6 |
| Lubelskie | Lara | 101 | 6 |
| Lubuskie | Lara | 71 | 7 |
| Łódzkie | Lara | 82 | 13 |
| Małopolskie | Lara | 101 | 18 |
| Mazowieckie | Lara | 105 | 26 |
| Opolskie | Lara | 73 | 6 |
| Podkarpackie | Lara | 78 | 11 |
| Podlaskie | Lara | 96 | 4 |
| Pomorskie | Lara | 84 | 19 |
| Śląskie | Lara | 92 | 19 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Lara | 72 | 6 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Lara | 131 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Lara | 84 | 23 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Lara | 71 | 13 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lara appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (18th), Province of Flemish Brabant (28th), Brussels-Capital Region (47th), Province of West Flanders (52nd), Province of Antwerp (67th), Province of Liège (98th), Province of East Flanders (123rd) and Province of Hainaut (153rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Lara by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 802 | 12th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Lara among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Lara | 5,913 | 6,705 |
| Finland girls | Lara | 679 | 766 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Lara lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 33,232 women called Lara were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pontevedra | Lara | 1,730 | 3.527 | 61 |
| Cantabria | Lara | 1,031 | 3.368 | 65 |
| Coruña, A | Lara | 1,713 | 2.899 | 77 |
| Burgos | Lara | 464 | 2.561 | 86 |
| Ourense | Lara | 398 | 2.509 | 83 |
| Lugo | Lara | 416 | 2.479 | 83 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Lara against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.