Larah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LAH-ra
- Origin
- Greek
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Larah is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “possibly citadel”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies) and 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Larah mean?
Greek: spelling of Lara; Russian short form of Larisa
“possibly citadel”
Made famous in the West by Lara, the heroine of Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago.
Meaning borrowed from Lara. More on Wiktionary.
Is Larah a girl's or a boy's name?
Larah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK and 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Larah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,409among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Larah, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,326th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 7 girls.
2025 had more girls named Larah than any year since 2007.
In 2025, 529 girls in the UK were given Larah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #117, up from #3,409 for this spelling alone.
- Lara 522
- Larah 7
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales and 780th in Scotland.
Larah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 1 | #7,582 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 1 | #7,491 |
| 2020 | 1 | #7,326 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 1 | #7,536 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 1 | #7,629 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 1 | #7,377 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 7 | #3,060 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 1 | #5,353 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 4 | #3,374 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 4 | #3,289 |
How popular is Larah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Larah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2009, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 1981.
Half of all the girls named Larah in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 414 girls in the US were given Larah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #690, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
- Lara 409
- Larah 5
Larah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,476 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,187 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,661 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
Names like Larah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Ayah Zainab Aaliyah Hiba Farah Hafsa Nusaybah Hibah Sumayyah Zairah Ruqayyah
Other spellings of Larah
Names related to Larah
More Greek names
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Larah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/larah, updated 20 October 2026.