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Alonda vs Alora

American parents have registered 11,893 Aloras since 1880, against 877 Alondas. Alora is still ahead, with 1,614 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alonda against Alora, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alonda 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 82 years in which either name was published, Alora for 46 years and Alonda for 36 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Alonda Alora
Total US births 87711,893
Most in one year 391,614
Babies in 2025 under 51,614
Estimated living today 82012,000
Median age today 474
Peak year 19702025
Best rank 2,081st girls195th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked195th
First recorded 19491918
Girls / boys 877 / 011,893 / 0

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 Alondas alive today are over 47; half the Aloras are over 4. That is 43 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alonda and Alora.