Alera
Perichares is a Neotropical genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Meaning & Origin of Alera
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Perichares is a Neotropical genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
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The Story of Alera
Alera first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1999, with 11 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2005: 19 births, good for #6,245 nationwide. About 46% of every Alera on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Alera last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 291 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
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About the name Alera
Alera is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1999 and has accumulated 291 births in the dataset. Alera's peak popularity came in 2005 when it ranked #6,245. Use the chart and map above to compare Alera's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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