Alara
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Modern given name, likely from a Romance or Turkish source; etymology uncertain.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 355K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Modern given name, likely from a Romance or Turkish source; etymology uncertain.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alara counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Alara | 68 |
| US United States | 937 | 1 in 355K | 931 | Alara | 131 |
| DE Germany | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Alara | 44 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 736K | — | Alara | 28 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 20 | Alara | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 61K | 215 | Alara | 10 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Alara | 4 |
| AL Albania | 37 | 1 in 83K | 37 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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 wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Forme féminine d’Alaric; origine germanique, « toute-puissante ».
as a nameLe 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 wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of alar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, then (at that time)
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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).
- Is Alara a male or female name?
- Alara is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Alara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 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.
What do you want to know about Alara?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alaraThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.