Alura comes from the English tradition, meaning Godlike adviser.
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How popular is Alura?
1999peak year
Today, Alura is rarely chosen — ranked well outside the top 1,000 (around #6886), with only about 18 babies given the name per year. But it wasn't always this way. At its peak in 1999, 34 babies were given the name (ranked #3573 nationally). Its strongest stretch was the 2000s. Alura has been trending upward in recent years. In all, around 658 babies have been registered as Alura since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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