Allura
Feminine · “attraction”
Allura is built on the English word allure, which came into the language from French — a verb about drawing something towards you, originally a falconer's term for calling a hawk back.
How old is the name Allura?
Allura first appears in US birth records in 1946 — 79 years ago. The typical Allura alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 900 people named Allura are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Allura most popular?
Allura peaked in 2025, reaching #3517 nationally. Today it ranks #3517, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Allura
Ours, offered as ours. The word behind this name comes from falconry, which is a better history than it needs. A lure was the feathered device a falconer swung to bring a hawk back out of the sky, and to allure was to draw a bird in with it. French passed the word to English in the fourteenth century and it lost the hawk and kept the pull. Allura adds an ending that makes it a name. The falconer is still faintly in there.
Meaningscholars disagree
attraction, enticement
The English allure comes from Old French aleurer, to attract, built on loire, a falconer's lure. Whether the name was formed from it deliberately or built on the -ura ending of modern naming is not documented, and the name is not attested before the twentieth century.
Pronouncing Allura
uh-LOOR-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families say uh-LUR-ah.
Nicknames for Allura
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1946
- Most girls named
- 202243 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3517reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +65.4%43 in 2025, from 26
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Allura in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alura in Spanish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Georgia, New York.
Alluras among us
people named Allura are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 37,378 born in 2025 was named Allura
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Allura
- #3517
- Allura on the 2025 chart
- #893
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Allura went to 43 girls in 2025, but Alura is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 67, which makes it the 893rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,624 places above the chart.
- Allura43
- Alura24
About 1 girl in 23,989 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 37,378 for Allura itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Amarilis test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Allura's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Amarilis climbed just as high around 1985, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Amarilis's path sketches the road Allura is walking now.
Allura sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Allura is headed
Allura should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Allura beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Allura in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Allie is a plain short form that works at any age.
- The word behind it has a genuinely good history in falconry.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- The word means enticement, which is a particular thing to name a daughter.
- Allura, Alura and Alora are all in use and none is dominant.
- There is no documented meaning for the name as such, only for the word behind it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alluras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Allura are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Allura?
- Allura is the most-used spelling in US records — 43 of the 67 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Alura.
- How popular is the name Allura in 2025?
- Allura ranks #3517 among US girl names in 2025, with 43 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Allura?
- About 1 in every 37,378 US girls born in 2025 was named Allura — 43 in all.
- Will my child share the name Allura with classmates?
- Allura will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Allura
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