# Alora (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/alora/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “my dream” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,893 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 11,893 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 805, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Botswana, it means "my dream" in the Bantu languages.

## What it means

Alora is grouped under dream.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 182 | 1,293 |
| 2012 | 173 | 1,351 |
| 2013 | 184 | 1,281 |
| 2014 | 192 | 1,258 |
| 2015 | 207 | 1,204 |
| 2016 | 228 | 1,113 |
| 2017 | 258 | 1,006 |
| 2018 | 291 | 920 |
| 2019 | 400 | 714 |
| 2020 | 485 | 599 |
| 2021 | 676 | 463 |
| 2022 | 1,183 | 267 |
| 2023 | 1,492 | 200 |
| 2024 | 1,380 | 224 |
| 2025 | 1,614 | 195 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2012 | 5 | 4,171 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4,050 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2015 | 7 | 3,252 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,367 |
| 2017 | 18 | 1,681 |
| 2018 | 13 | 2,090 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,782 |
| 2020 | 24 | 1,313 |
| 2021 | 51 | 734 |
| 2022 | 104 | 405 |
| 2023 | 163 | 273 |
| 2024 | 206 | 232 |
| 2025 | 173 | 265 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.