Meaning not yet researched.
Era: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 64 in 2025. Its best rank was #340 in 1898.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #340 in 1898; #2,704 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Era in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,704 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1898, at #340.
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Era: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 64 girls in 2025. Peak: #340 in 1898 · most girls in one year: 157 (1916).
In 2025, 64 US girls were named Era, making it the 2,704th most common girls’ name of the year, up 161 places from #2,865 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 58 girls named Era in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #340, reached in 1898. The most girls given the name in a single year was 157, in 1916. For comparison, it was #5,175 in 2015 and #1,845 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Era in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 11 babies. In all, 6,009 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 1,219 babies named Era.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 447 US girls were named Era; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,114 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Era ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #919 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ira (62,535 babies since 1880), Ara (4,866 babies since 1880), Hera (942 babies since 1880) and Eira (878 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Eraya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Eraya (23).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Era in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 17 | #919 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,076 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,883 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #3,459 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,704 | — | — |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,865 | 8 | #9,250 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,730 | 7 | #10,048 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,236 | — | — |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,357 | — | — |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,566 | 5 | #12,621 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,569 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,949 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,603 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,189 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,175 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,855 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,093 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,419 | — | — |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,658 | — | — |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,022 | — | — |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,179 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,519 | — | — |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,672 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,835 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,031 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,521 | — | — |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,246 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,448 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,051 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,199 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,937 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,199 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,260 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,236 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,640 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,260 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,250 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,291 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,600 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,597 | — | — |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,435 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,511 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,299 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,614 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,970 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,384 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,810 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,705 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,610 | — | — |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,373 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,103 | — | — |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,364 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,333 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,636 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,799 | — | — |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,803 | — | — |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,750 | — | — |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,105 | — | — |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,079 | — | — |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,362 | — | — |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,406 | — | — |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,205 | — | — |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,599 | — | — |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,656 | — | — |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,236 | — | — |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,976 | 6 | #3,437 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1945 | 38 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1940 | 40 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1939 | 43 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1938 | 61 | #906 | — | — |
| 1937 | 39 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1936 | 43 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1935 | 55 | #941 | — | — |
| 1934 | 57 | #908 | — | — |
| 1933 | 64 | #839 | — | — |
| 1932 | 61 | #901 | — | — |
| 1931 | 59 | #901 | — | — |
| 1930 | 72 | #840 | — | — |
| 1929 | 83 | #770 | 6 | #3,682 |
| 1928 | 81 | #795 | — | — |
| 1927 | 107 | #704 | — | — |
| 1926 | 117 | #669 | — | — |
| 1925 | 122 | #670 | — | — |
| 1924 | 114 | #696 | — | — |
| 1923 | 122 | #672 | — | — |
| 1922 | 131 | #640 | — | — |
| 1921 | 135 | #638 | — | — |
| 1920 | 129 | #635 | 10 | #2,832 |
| 1919 | 150 | #565 | 5 | #4,362 |
| 1918 | 142 | #598 | — | — |
| 1917 | 145 | #561 | — | — |
| 1916 | 157 | #526 | — | — |
| 1915 | 145 | #522 | — | — |
| 1914 | 118 | #515 | 7 | #2,738 |
| 1913 | 95 | #522 | — | — |
| 1912 | 86 | #522 | — | — |
| 1911 | 78 | #463 | — | — |
| 1910 | 91 | #414 | — | — |
| 1909 | 79 | #411 | — | — |
| 1908 | 77 | #411 | — | — |
| 1907 | 84 | #387 | — | — |
| 1906 | 66 | #422 | — | — |
| 1905 | 67 | #416 | — | — |
| 1904 | 87 | #349 | — | — |
| 1903 | 79 | #355 | — | — |
| 1902 | 68 | #382 | — | — |
| 1901 | 65 | #371 | — | — |
| 1900 | 74 | #387 | — | — |
| 1899 | 48 | #423 | — | — |
| 1898 | 84 | #340 | — | — |
| 1897 | 72 | #344 | — | — |
| 1896 | 54 | #385 | — | — |
| 1895 | 47 | #413 | — | — |
| 1894 | 46 | #410 | — | — |
| 1893 | 43 | #408 | — | — |
| 1892 | 34 | #467 | — | — |
| 1891 | 45 | #372 | — | — |
| 1890 | 49 | #363 | — | — |
| 1889 | 26 | #488 | — | — |
| 1888 | 26 | #492 | — | — |
| 1887 | 21 | #492 | — | — |
| 1886 | 19 | #513 | — | — |
| 1885 | 21 | #461 | — | — |
| 1884 | 15 | #548 | — | — |
| 1883 | 14 | #527 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #764 | — | — |
| 1881 | 9 | #594 | — | — |
| 1880 | 11 | #528 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).