Lara
474
Babies in 2024
-2%
10-year change
2003
Peak · 568
-10%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Lara
Lara peaked among UK girls' names in the early 2000s (568 babies in 2003) and has remained in active use — 474 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Lara reached its peak in 2003, when 568 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #91 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 474 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 13,415 girls have been officially registered with the name Lara in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 5,492 girls were registered with the name, starting from 484 in 2014 and ending at 474 in 2024.