girls:
1.3k births since 2002
#4417 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 2002
#6436 (17th percentile)
The name Elara is the #6,436 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,306 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 16.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,417 (22.7% percentile) for all time with 1,306 births since 2002.
Elara first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (first recorded for girls in 2002). Birth data for Elara is available in 20 out of the 22 years between 2002 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Elara reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 18.0% percentile (ranked #786) with 99 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 99 births per million (ranked 18.0% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elara ranks #789 for girls (16.7% percentile) with 93 births per million, which is 94.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elara".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Elara. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.1% confident that Elara is pronounced as eh-LAH-ruh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-LAH-ruh, at 29.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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