Meaning not yet researched.
Lora: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 58 in 2025. Its best rank was #169 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #169 in 1881; #2,916 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lora in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,916 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #169.
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Lora: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 58 girls in 2025. Peak: #169 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 1,598 (1963).
In 2025, 58 US girls were named Lora, making it the 2,916th most common girls’ name of the year, up 636 places from #3,552 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 44 girls named Lora in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #169, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,598, in 1963. For comparison, it was #2,871 in 2015 and #345 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lora in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 74 babies with the name. In all, 52,484 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 14,221 babies named Lora.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 534 US girls were named Lora; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,712 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Laura (804,390 babies since 1880), Lori (342,764 babies since 1880), Loretta (178,066 babies since 1880) and Lara (30,202 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lorina, Loura and Lorra 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: Lorina (1,817), Loura (552), Lorra (436), Lorisa (402), Lorella (347), Loredana (273), Lorah (97), Lurae (95), Loray (86), Lorae (80), Luara (71), Luray (27), 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 Lora 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 | 58 | #2,916 | — | — |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,552 | — | — |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,308 | — | — |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,102 | — | — |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,279 | — | — |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,487 | — | — |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,647 | — | — |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,728 | — | — |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,871 | — | — |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,670 | — | — |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,751 | — | — |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,959 | — | — |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,079 | — | — |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,184 | — | — |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,045 | — | — |
| 2007 | 71 | #2,610 | — | — |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,572 | — | — |
| 2005 | 91 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 2003 | 87 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 2000 | 126 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 1999 | 113 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 1998 | 98 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1997 | 131 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1996 | 138 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1995 | 154 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 1994 | 183 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1993 | 170 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1992 | 227 | #874 | — | — |
| 1991 | 204 | #940 | — | — |
| 1990 | 267 | #767 | — | — |
| 1989 | 295 | #686 | — | — |
| 1988 | 304 | #646 | — | — |
| 1987 | 350 | #568 | 5 | #7,677 |
| 1986 | 346 | #569 | — | — |
| 1985 | 436 | #481 | — | — |
| 1984 | 426 | #480 | — | — |
| 1983 | 458 | #450 | — | — |
| 1982 | 492 | #438 | — | — |
| 1981 | 489 | #436 | — | — |
| 1980 | 534 | #415 | — | — |
| 1979 | 593 | #378 | — | — |
| 1978 | 621 | #348 | — | — |
| 1977 | 650 | #344 | — | — |
| 1976 | 657 | #337 | 5 | #6,133 |
| 1975 | 667 | #335 | 7 | #4,604 |
| 1974 | 696 | #321 | — | — |
| 1973 | 726 | #317 | — | — |
| 1972 | 889 | #286 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,068 | #270 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,202 | #256 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,476 | #211 | 8 | #3,476 |
| 1968 | 1,514 | #203 | 6 | #3,966 |
| 1967 | 1,387 | #216 | 8 | #3,138 |
| 1966 | 1,357 | #224 | 5 | #4,301 |
| 1965 | 1,385 | #229 | 5 | #4,238 |
| 1964 | 1,578 | #218 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,598 | #213 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,347 | #235 | 6 | #3,866 |
| 1961 | 1,325 | #236 | 6 | #3,892 |
| 1960 | 1,203 | #256 | 7 | #3,529 |
| 1959 | 891 | #308 | — | — |
| 1958 | 802 | #330 | — | — |
| 1957 | 737 | #336 | — | — |
| 1956 | 689 | #334 | — | — |
| 1955 | 585 | #361 | — | — |
| 1954 | 603 | #351 | — | — |
| 1953 | 516 | #375 | 7 | #3,297 |
| 1952 | 522 | #361 | — | — |
| 1951 | 446 | #387 | — | — |
| 1950 | 514 | #345 | — | — |
| 1949 | 386 | #408 | — | — |
| 1948 | 400 | #398 | — | — |
| 1947 | 372 | #423 | — | — |
| 1946 | 339 | #416 | — | — |
| 1945 | 285 | #422 | — | — |
| 1944 | 264 | #447 | — | — |
| 1943 | 278 | #448 | — | — |
| 1942 | 251 | #465 | 7 | #3,097 |
| 1941 | 271 | #418 | 7 | #3,028 |
| 1940 | 280 | #413 | — | — |
| 1939 | 282 | #398 | 6 | #3,333 |
| 1938 | 319 | #365 | — | — |
| 1937 | 273 | #393 | — | — |
| 1936 | 268 | #389 | 6 | #3,387 |
| 1935 | 274 | #384 | — | — |
| 1934 | 245 | #420 | 7 | #3,169 |
| 1933 | 295 | #372 | — | — |
| 1932 | 291 | #385 | — | — |
| 1931 | 294 | #375 | 9 | #2,791 |
| 1930 | 322 | #381 | 9 | #2,914 |
| 1929 | 305 | #384 | — | — |
| 1928 | 296 | #388 | — | — |
| 1927 | 345 | #371 | 8 | #3,329 |
| 1926 | 280 | #407 | — | — |
| 1925 | 347 | #366 | — | — |
| 1924 | 361 | #362 | 9 | #3,155 |
| 1923 | 353 | #353 | 6 | #4,072 |
| 1922 | 341 | #354 | 10 | #2,925 |
| 1921 | 363 | #343 | 7 | #3,734 |
| 1920 | 373 | #340 | 7 | #3,687 |
| 1919 | 333 | #352 | 8 | #3,275 |
| 1918 | 401 | #319 | 8 | #3,267 |
| 1917 | 398 | #307 | 6 | #3,804 |
| 1916 | 366 | #318 | 11 | #2,479 |
| 1915 | 341 | #324 | 6 | #3,663 |
| 1914 | 270 | #321 | — | — |
| 1913 | 252 | #301 | 8 | #2,187 |
| 1912 | 245 | #292 | — | — |
| 1911 | 199 | #275 | — | — |
| 1910 | 173 | #295 | — | — |
| 1909 | 174 | #274 | — | — |
| 1908 | 167 | #274 | — | — |
| 1907 | 145 | #288 | — | — |
| 1906 | 175 | #246 | — | — |
| 1905 | 185 | #231 | — | — |
| 1904 | 144 | #263 | — | — |
| 1903 | 145 | #255 | — | — |
| 1902 | 166 | #233 | — | — |
| 1901 | 159 | #232 | — | — |
| 1900 | 176 | #244 | — | — |
| 1899 | 154 | #219 | — | — |
| 1898 | 157 | #235 | — | — |
| 1897 | 169 | #212 | — | — |
| 1896 | 179 | #209 | — | — |
| 1895 | 166 | #211 | — | — |
| 1894 | 177 | #198 | — | — |
| 1893 | 146 | #212 | 5 | #1,129 |
| 1892 | 140 | #218 | 9 | #777 |
| 1891 | 135 | #201 | — | — |
| 1890 | 130 | #213 | — | — |
| 1889 | 138 | #194 | — | — |
| 1888 | 107 | #224 | — | — |
| 1887 | 90 | #220 | 8 | #718 |
| 1886 | 109 | #191 | — | — |
| 1885 | 113 | #172 | — | — |
| 1884 | 72 | #228 | — | — |
| 1883 | 76 | #196 | — | — |
| 1882 | 55 | #234 | 7 | #802 |
| 1881 | 80 | #169 | — | — |
| 1880 | 74 | #173 | — | — |
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).