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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lara

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#693

up +48 places

2025 births

409

up +29 births

All-time births

30,168

1% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1969
1,354 births
Best rank
#223
in 1969
First recorded
1887
#1,226 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1987
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
129 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19691,354#223Peak
  2. 19701,332#235
  3. 19681,295#227
  4. 19711,053#273
  5. 1967945#277

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #223 in 1969 · peak births 1,354 in 1969

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

34 boys · 30,168 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Lara has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.