Alara

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Alara, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Nisa
• Elif
• Defne
• Turkey
• Esma
• Inara
• Leyla
• Camila
• Adia
• Ela
• Aylin
• Amaya

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Alara is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Türkiye, United States

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Alâra

• Bangla given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, India

  Also written Alar, আলার

• Bulgarian given name7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

  Also written Алара

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Alara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, As low as reasonably achievable.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In French, Forme féminine d’Alaric; origine germanique, « toute-puissante ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In Yoruba, an ancient title of a legendary king mentioned in the, Odù Ifá and closely associated with 2 other rulers, Ajerò and Ọ̀ràngún.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Portuguese, first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of alar

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Occitan, then (at that time)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Alara of Nubiab. 900King of Nubia before the 25th dynasty
• Alara Bozbeyb. 1986LTTurkish actor (born 1986)
• Alara Adilowb. 1988NLDutch author and poet (1988)
• Alara Turanb. 1995TRTurkish actor (born 1995)
• Alara Şehitlerb. 2006DEGerman association football player
• Alara Kalamateacher of yogic meditation and second teacher of Gautama Buddha
• Alara KoçibeyTRTurkish designer and socialite

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Alara mean, and where does it come from?

Modern given name, likely from a Romance or Turkish source; etymology uncertain. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).

How do you pronounce Alara?

In Turkish /aɫaɾa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Alara a male or female name?

Alara is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Kosovo (ASK Kosovo).

In which country does Alara have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Alara in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alara.

How common is the name Alara?

In the United States, the national register counted 937 people named Alara in 2020, about 1 in 355 thousand residents.