Meaning not yet researched.
Lera: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #615 in 1905.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #615 in 1905; #9,826 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lera in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,826 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1905, at #615.
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Lera: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #615 in 1905 · most girls in one year: 73 (1921).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Lera, making it the 9,826th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,679 places from #14,505 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 6 girls named Lera in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #615, reached in 1905. The most girls given the name in a single year was 73, in 1921. For comparison, it was #8,728 in 2015 and #2,614 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lera in 129 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 7 babies. In all, 2,609 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 568 babies named Lera.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 114 US girls were named Lera; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Leora (12,125 babies since 1880), Lyra (8,095 babies since 1880), Liora (1,683 babies since 1880) and Liara (817 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Lera in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,826 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,505 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,819 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,105 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,756 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,278 | — | — |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,217 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,411 | — | — |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,407 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,185 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,728 | — | — |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,594 | — | — |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,663 | — | — |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,919 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,751 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,343 | — | — |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,140 | — | — |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,178 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,910 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,467 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,670 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,574 | — | — |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,384 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,657 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,395 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,747 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,163 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,407 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,238 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,687 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,379 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,263 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,852 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,563 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,577 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,765 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,626 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,120 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,696 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,107 | — | — |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,979 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,780 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,319 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,790 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,925 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,319 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,640 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,771 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,146 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,079 | — | — |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,997 | — | — |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,551 | — | — |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,364 | — | — |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,397 | — | — |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,284 | — | — |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,185 | — | — |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,466 | — | — |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,406 | — | — |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,883 | — | — |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,481 | — | — |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,749 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,376 | — | — |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,463 | — | — |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,288 | — | — |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,929 | — | — |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,652 | — | — |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,701 | — | — |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,835 | — | — |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,732 | — | — |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1935 | 34 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 1933 | 39 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 1931 | 37 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1930 | 41 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1929 | 45 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1928 | 41 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1927 | 52 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 1926 | 56 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1925 | 57 | #993 | — | — |
| 1924 | 56 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1923 | 62 | #937 | — | — |
| 1922 | 56 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1921 | 73 | #864 | — | — |
| 1920 | 70 | #869 | — | — |
| 1919 | 62 | #897 | — | — |
| 1918 | 63 | #907 | — | — |
| 1917 | 65 | #852 | — | — |
| 1916 | 60 | #879 | — | — |
| 1915 | 46 | #984 | — | — |
| 1914 | 50 | #835 | — | — |
| 1913 | 47 | #770 | — | — |
| 1912 | 42 | #774 | — | — |
| 1911 | 30 | #795 | — | — |
| 1910 | 35 | #715 | — | — |
| 1909 | 30 | #740 | — | — |
| 1908 | 32 | #687 | — | — |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1906 | 24 | #752 | — | — |
| 1905 | 33 | #615 | — | — |
| 1904 | 20 | #820 | — | — |
| 1903 | 29 | #620 | — | — |
| 1902 | 19 | #807 | — | — |
| 1901 | 13 | #943 | — | — |
| 1900 | 18 | #905 | — | — |
| 1899 | 19 | #744 | — | — |
| 1898 | 18 | #802 | — | — |
| 1897 | 15 | #850 | — | — |
| 1896 | 15 | #859 | — | — |
| 1895 | 11 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1894 | 13 | #881 | — | — |
| 1893 | 11 | #935 | — | — |
| 1892 | 15 | #782 | — | — |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1889 | 17 | #629 | — | — |
| 1888 | 15 | #677 | — | — |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1885 | 7 | #881 | — | — |
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).