Aloha vs Alora

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Aloha Alora

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 104 years in which either name was published, Aloha for 55 years and Alora for 49 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

• 1913–1948 Aloha ahead
• 1949 Alora ahead
• 1950–1959 Aloha ahead
• 1960–1963 Alora ahead
• 1964–1968 Aloha ahead
• 1969–1970 Alora ahead
• 1972 Aloha ahead
• 1973–1976 Alora ahead
• 1978–1984 Aloha ahead
• 1985–2025 Alora ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Alohas alive today are over 73; half the Aloras are over 4. That is 69 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Aloha California (9.9×)
• Alora Alaska (2.9×), Florida (2.4×), Arizona (2.3×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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