Leora
#1,352 for girls in 2025, 163 births · Last seen for boys in 1917 at #3,545
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1880 · 28 births
- Debut · girls
- 28 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,119since 1880
Leora over time
Rank among girls' names. Leora has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,352 | 163 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,520 | 142 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,578 | 134 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,828 | 111 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,739 | 118 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,808 | 109 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,231 | 82 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,677 | 124 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,902 | 106 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,054 | 96 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,194 | 86 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,267 | 82 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,458 | 73 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,548 | 71 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,664 | 66 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,451 | 76 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,800 | 63 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,267 | 51 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,684 | 68 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,587 | 41 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,889 | 55 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,707 | 58 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,146 | 45 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,864 | 33 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,632 | 56 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,148 | 41 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,691 | 50 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,105 | 38 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,505 | 32 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,152 | 36 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,038 | 38 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,585 | 30 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,091 | 37 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,159 | 35 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,737 | 42 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,566 | 28 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,931 | 35 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,309 | 46 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,682 | 36 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,657 | 36 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,198 | 44 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,770 | 33 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,674 | 68 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,246 | 44 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,333 | 24 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,269 | 40 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,515 | 34 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,546 | 31 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,321 | 35 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,497 | 30 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,223 | 35 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,311 | 32 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,175 | 37 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,267 | 34 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,927 | 42 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,091 | 33 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,921 | 37 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,916 | 36 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,489 | 56 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,666 | 48 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,623 | 49 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,497 | 56 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,612 | 49 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,393 | 62 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,435 | 56 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,333 | 63 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,254 | 70 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,287 | 65 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,229 | 67 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,465 | 47 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,312 | 55 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,119 | 71 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,151 | 66 | — | |
| 1950 | #959 | 88 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,077 | 69 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,070 | 68 | — | |
| 1947 | #942 | 88 | — | |
| 1946 | #970 | 74 | — | |
| 1945 | #904 | 69 | — | |
| 1944 | #827 | 85 | — | |
| 1943 | #849 | 84 | — | |
| 1942 | #720 | 107 | — | |
| 1941 | #751 | 90 | — | |
| 1940 | #718 | 94 | — | |
| 1939 | #623 | 117 | — | |
| 1938 | #625 | 120 | — | |
| 1937 | #615 | 120 | — | |
| 1936 | #600 | 120 | — | |
| 1935 | #592 | 120 | — | |
| 1934 | #591 | 122 | — | |
| 1933 | #558 | 131 | — | |
| 1932 | #537 | 146 | — | |
| 1931 | #532 | 154 | — | |
| 1930 | #550 | 154 | — | |
| 1929 | #516 | 172 | — | |
| 1928 | #535 | 171 | — | |
| 1927 | #479 | 212 | — | |
| 1926 | #477 | 211 | — | |
| 1925 | #466 | 218 | — | |
| 1924 | #438 | 252 | — | |
| 1923 | #470 | 215 | — | |
| 1922 | #425 | 245 | — | |
| 1921 | #426 | 255 | — | |
| 1920 | #463 | 214 | — | |
| 1919 | #412 | 247 | — | |
| 1918 | #433 | 235 | — | |
| 1917 | #424 | 227 | #3,545 | 6 |
| 1916 | #403 | 243 | — | |
| 1915 | #404 | 223 | — | |
| 1914 | #420 | 162 | — | |
| 1913 | #396 | 150 | — | |
| 1912 | #397 | 134 | — | |
| 1911 | #362 | 121 | — | |
| 1910 | #387 | 104 | — | |
| 1909 | #368 | 99 | — | |
| 1908 | #405 | 81 | — | |
| 1907 | #448 | 64 | — | |
| 1906 | #356 | 88 | — | |
| 1905 | #429 | 62 | — | |
| 1904 | #354 | 85 | — | |
| 1903 | #354 | 80 | — | |
| 1902 | #379 | 69 | — | |
| 1901 | #361 | 70 | — | |
| 1900 | #392 | 71 | — | |
| 1899 | #378 | 59 | — | |
| 1898 | #405 | 58 | — | |
| 1897 | #372 | 61 | — | |
| 1896 | #409 | 49 | — | |
| 1895 | #374 | 56 | — | |
| 1894 | #351 | 62 | — | |
| 1893 | #379 | 51 | — | |
| 1892 | #387 | 47 | — | |
| 1891 | #430 | 34 | — | |
| 1890 | #358 | 51 | — | |
| 1889 | #430 | 31 | — | |
| 1888 | #380 | 40 | — | |
| 1887 | #398 | 30 | — | |
| 1886 | #371 | 33 | — | |
| 1885 | #459 | 21 | — | |
| 1884 | #391 | 26 | — | |
| 1883 | #343 | 27 | — | |
| 1882 | #326 | 29 | — | |
| 1881 | #338 | 23 | — | |
| 1880 | #294 | 28 | — | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Leora was already there! It came in at #294, and was given to 28 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1885, when fewer than 30 girls a year got the name.
See more about Leora
- 168 spots since 2024 (#1,520 → #1,352)
- 456 spots since 2020 (#1,808 → #1,352)
- 842 spots since 2015 (#2,194 → #1,352)
- Biggest jump: 118 spots in 1950 (#1,077 → #959)
- Biggest drop: 192 spots in 1951 (#959 → #1,151)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #294 (28 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 69 yrs · run 1880–1947
- Highest: 1 in 3,240 girls born in 1904 were named Leora (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,861 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #294 in 1880, was only 1 in 3,250 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.9% of all girls named Leora (2,165) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 288 | #294 (1880) | #373 |
| 1890s | 528 | #351 (1894) | #384 |
| 1900s | 769 | #354 (1904) | #385 |
| 1910s | 1,846 | #362 (1911) | #404 |
| 1920s | 2,165 | #425 (1922) | #470 |
| 1930s | 1,304 | #532 (1931) | #582 |
| 1940s | 828 | #718 (1940) | #883 |
| 1950s | 648 | #959 (1950) | #1,254 |
| 1960s | 468 | #1,393 (1960) | #1,714 |
| 1970s | 332 | #2,175 (1971) | #2,446 |
| 1980s | 402 | #1,674 (1981) | #2,581 |
| 1990s | 379 | #2,691 (1998) | #3,121 |
| 2000s | 523 | #2,632 (2000) | #3,071 |
| 2010s | 862 | #1,677 (2018) | #2,245 |
| 2020s | 777 | #1,352 (2025) | #1,638 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Leora in 1917
Top girls' names in 1917
Top boys' names in 1917
More about 1917
girls
1,081,267 girls got a published name in 1917; 1 in 4,763 of them was named Leora, which outranked 92.0% of the 5,310 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
925,482 boys got a published name in 1917; 1 in 154,247 of them was named Leora, which outranked 23.0% of the 4,602 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).