Meaning not yet researched.
Leora: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 163 in 2025. Its best rank was #301 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #301 in 1880; #1,356 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leora in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,356 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #301.
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Leora: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 163 girls in 2025. Peak: #301 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 255 (1921).
In 2025, 163 US girls were named Leora, making it the 1,356th most common girls’ name of the year, up 166 places from #1,522 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 142 girls named Leora in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #301, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 255, in 1921. For comparison, it was #2,204 in 2015 and #964 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leora in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 28 babies with the name. In all, 12,125 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,165 babies named Leora.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,185 US girls were named Leora; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 163. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,861 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leora ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #485 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lyra (8,095 babies since 1880), Lera (2,609 babies since 1880), Liora (1,683 babies since 1880) and Liara (817 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Leira, Lira and Leara 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Leira (436), Lira (391), Leara (250), Leaira (200), Leray (174), Lerae (74), Liorah (65), Leorah (47), Leiara (42), Learah (24), Lerah (16), Leura (10), and more.
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 Leora 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 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 16 | #485 | #1,285 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #699 | — |
| New York | 23 | #718 | #801 |
| Maryland | 6 | #796 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #862 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #991 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,214 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,297 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,476 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,523 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,602 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,624 | #3,235 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,678 | #3,108 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 163 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 2024 | 142 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 2023 | 134 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 2022 | 111 | #1,835 | — | — |
| 2021 | 118 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 2020 | 109 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 2019 | 82 | #2,245 | — | — |
| 2018 | 124 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 2016 | 96 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 2015 | 86 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 2014 | 82 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 2013 | 73 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,556 | — | — |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,682 | — | — |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,468 | — | — |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,298 | — | — |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,158 | — | — |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,622 | — | — |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,180 | — | — |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,913 | — | — |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,656 | — | — |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,169 | — | — |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,714 | — | — |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,133 | — | — |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,541 | — | — |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,188 | — | — |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,067 | — | — |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,638 | — | — |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,115 | — | — |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,189 | — | — |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,774 | — | — |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,623 | — | — |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,955 | — | — |
| 1987 | 46 | #2,323 | — | — |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,700 | — | — |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,681 | — | — |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,821 | — | — |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,803 | — | — |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,265 | — | — |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,396 | — | — |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,534 | — | — |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,579 | — | — |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,110 | — | — |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 1965 | 56 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 1964 | 48 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1963 | 49 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 1962 | 56 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1961 | 49 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1960 | 62 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1959 | 56 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1958 | 63 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1957 | 70 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1956 | 65 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 1955 | 67 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1954 | 47 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1953 | 55 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1952 | 71 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1951 | 66 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1950 | 88 | #964 | — | — |
| 1949 | 69 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1948 | 68 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1947 | 88 | #946 | — | — |
| 1946 | 74 | #974 | — | — |
| 1945 | 69 | #910 | — | — |
| 1944 | 85 | #827 | — | — |
| 1943 | 84 | #852 | — | — |
| 1942 | 107 | #723 | — | — |
| 1941 | 90 | #754 | — | — |
| 1940 | 94 | #719 | — | — |
| 1939 | 117 | #627 | — | — |
| 1938 | 120 | #627 | — | — |
| 1937 | 120 | #618 | — | — |
| 1936 | 120 | #602 | — | — |
| 1935 | 120 | #596 | — | — |
| 1934 | 122 | #593 | — | — |
| 1933 | 131 | #560 | — | — |
| 1932 | 146 | #538 | — | — |
| 1931 | 154 | #533 | — | — |
| 1930 | 154 | #550 | — | — |
| 1929 | 172 | #517 | — | — |
| 1928 | 171 | #535 | — | — |
| 1927 | 212 | #479 | — | — |
| 1926 | 211 | #478 | — | — |
| 1925 | 218 | #468 | — | — |
| 1924 | 252 | #439 | — | — |
| 1923 | 215 | #470 | — | — |
| 1922 | 245 | #425 | — | — |
| 1921 | 255 | #426 | — | — |
| 1920 | 214 | #463 | — | — |
| 1919 | 247 | #412 | — | — |
| 1918 | 235 | #433 | — | — |
| 1917 | 227 | #425 | 6 | #3,793 |
| 1916 | 243 | #403 | — | — |
| 1915 | 223 | #404 | — | — |
| 1914 | 162 | #420 | — | — |
| 1913 | 150 | #397 | — | — |
| 1912 | 134 | #399 | — | — |
| 1911 | 121 | #365 | — | — |
| 1910 | 104 | #389 | — | — |
| 1909 | 99 | #369 | — | — |
| 1908 | 81 | #405 | — | — |
| 1907 | 64 | #450 | — | — |
| 1906 | 88 | #357 | — | — |
| 1905 | 62 | #429 | — | — |
| 1904 | 85 | #355 | — | — |
| 1903 | 80 | #354 | — | — |
| 1902 | 69 | #380 | — | — |
| 1901 | 70 | #362 | — | — |
| 1900 | 71 | #394 | — | — |
| 1899 | 59 | #378 | — | — |
| 1898 | 58 | #407 | — | — |
| 1897 | 61 | #372 | — | — |
| 1896 | 49 | #414 | — | — |
| 1895 | 56 | #374 | — | — |
| 1894 | 62 | #353 | — | — |
| 1893 | 51 | #380 | — | — |
| 1892 | 47 | #388 | — | — |
| 1891 | 34 | #437 | — | — |
| 1890 | 51 | #359 | — | — |
| 1889 | 31 | #434 | — | — |
| 1888 | 40 | #383 | — | — |
| 1887 | 30 | #399 | — | — |
| 1886 | 33 | #374 | — | — |
| 1885 | 21 | #462 | — | — |
| 1884 | 26 | #393 | — | — |
| 1883 | 27 | #349 | — | — |
| 1882 | 29 | #332 | — | — |
| 1881 | 23 | #344 | — | — |
| 1880 | 28 | #301 | — | — |
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).