Alondra
Feminine · Latin roots · “Lark (the songbird)”
Alondra is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 42,299 girls against 122 boys since 1880.
Alondra is the Spanish word for the lark — the small brown bird that sings on the wing — used as a given name. It arrived on the US charts in the middle of the last century and rose steadily for decades, strongest in California, Texas and Florida, so it carries the Spanish-speaking Americas with it wherever it goes. Three syllables, the stress falling comfortably in the middle: ah-LON-dra.
How old is the name Alondra?
Alondra first appears in US birth records in 1959 — 66 years ago. The typical Alondra alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 42,000 people named Alondra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alondra most popular?
Alondra peaked in 2005, reaching #120 nationally. Today it ranks #680, 560 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
From alauda (Latin, from Gaulish) to Alondra
The story of Alondra
Alondra belongs to the large Spanish tradition of naming girls straight from a beautiful common noun — the same road that gives Paloma (dove), Luz (light) and Estrella (star). The word traveled a long way before it became a name: Latin *alauda*, itself taken from Gaulish, passed into Old Occitan and Old French and reached Spanish as *alondra*. As a personal name it is comparatively recent, spreading through Mexico, Central America and Spanish-speaking communities in the United States within living memory. Its US strongholds — California, Texas, Florida — trace that path plainly.
Meaning
Lark (the songbird)
Spanish *alondra* is the everyday word for the bird. The word itself came into Spanish through Old French and Old Occitan from Latin *alauda*, which Roman writers noted was borrowed from Gaulish.
How the name formed
- alaudaLatin, from Gaulish
- alauza / aloeOld Occitan, Old French
- alondraSpanish word for lark
- Alondragiven name
Related forms: Alondra · Lark
Pronouncing Alondra
ah-LON-drah
Stress on the middle syllable in both Spanish and English. In Spanish the r is a single quick tap and the final a is full; English speakers often soften it to uh-LAHN-druh, which Spanish-speaking relatives will recognize without trouble.
Nicknames for Alondra
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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
- 1959
- Most girls named
- 20052,721 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #120reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −19.3%417 in 2025, from 517
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.
Alondra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alondra in Spanish — same name
- Lark in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Alondras among us
people named Alondra are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 3,854 born in 2025 was named Alondra
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Meagan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alondra's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Meagan climbed just as high around 1989, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Meagan's path sketches the road Alondra is walking now.
Alondra 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 Alondra is headed
Alondra 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.
Alondra beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alondra in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is not buried in etymology — any Spanish speaker hears 'lark' immediately, while the name still reads as a name rather than a word.
- Spelled the way it sounds in both Spanish and English, with no silent letters or competing spellings to correct.
- Crosses between Spanish and English with only a small shift in the r and the final vowel.
- Comes with a ready-made affectionate form, Alondrita, already in ordinary Spanish use.
- Outside Spanish-speaking regions it is often heard as Alandra, Alondria or Alexandra on a first introduction, so expect some spelling out over the phone.
- Most people carrying it in the US were born within a fairly narrow stretch of decades, so for now it reads as belonging to a particular generation rather than as an heirloom name.
- She is unlikely to share it with a classmate — good for standing apart, less good on the day she wants a keychain with her name on it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alondras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 42,000 people named Alondra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Alondra in 2025?
- Alondra ranks #680 among US girl names in 2025, with 417 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alondra?
- About 1 in every 3,854 US girls born in 2025 was named Alondra — 417 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alondra with classmates?
- Alondra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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