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How popular is the name Lara?
Births per year, rank history and how many Laras are alive today.
Lara (female) is currently the 98th most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 474 babies given the name in 2024. The name peaked in 2003, when 568 babies were given the name, the 91st most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2022, with 559 babies given the name that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 13,000 babies have been named Lara in England and Wales since 1996.
The Lara you are most likely to meet is around 4 years old. Half of all Laras born in England and Wales are between 9 and 24, and there are at least 15,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 4.7% chance that at least one of them will be called Lara.
How many babies are named Lara each year?
Where does Lara rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Lara most popular?
Lara peaked in 2003, when 568 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Lara?
At least 15,000 people named Lara born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Lara?
Most living Laras are between 9 and 24; the most common age is about 4.
Is Lara becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.