Tora

#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · Last seen for boys in 1978 at #5,059
Given to girls 97.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
1898 · 6 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
990
since 1898

Tora over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Tora has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201978peak #1,502, 1898girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,1079
2024#10,2719
2023#12,1977
2022#5,46523
2021#8,02413
2020#8,40612
2019#8,13813
2018#7,10016
2017#8,29913
2016#14,3316
2015
2014#6,20720
2013#13,1507
2012#7,80415
2011#11,1819
2010#7,51316
2009#12,4298
2008#9,47612
2007#11,6309
2006#11,4179
2005#10,12810
2004#8,71612
2003#12,4087
2002#11,1088
2001#13,5216
2000#9,8749
1999#10,3458
1998#6,71914
1997#12,0706
1996#9,5818
1995#7,04112
1994#7,09712
1993#5,95515
1992#9,4918
1991#6,97612
1990#6,46513
1989#7,44910
1988#7,6919
1987#7,9878
1986#6,61210
1985#8,3187
1984#5,53912
1983#5,45712
1982#4,94514
1981#4,74615
1980#5,24513
1979#3,44223
1978#2,39037#5,0596
1977#2,12444
1976#1,77553
1975#4,14115#4,7976
1974#2,83525
1973#2,40531#4,5056
1972#2,68026
1971#2,13738#3,6588
1970#2,52229
1969#2,64525
1968#3,45615
1967#4,6259
1966
1965#3,40214
1964#5,0088
1963#6,5925
1962#5,8606
1961#5,3097
1960
1959#6,2455
1958
1957#4,2029
1956#4,1619
1955#5,8285
1954#4,2788
1953
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1951
1950#3,6629
1949
1948#4,6516
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1936#4,1815
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1927#4,8055
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1917#4,5945
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1914#3,1886
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1911
1910#2,1406
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1898#1,5026
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First appearance
1898

The first year at least five girls were named Tora! It came in at #1,502, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1899–1909, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Tora
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 164 spots since 2024 (#10,271#10,107)
  • 1,701 spots since 2020 (#8,406#10,107)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1898
  • Peaked 1898 at #1,502 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1899, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 27,643
  • Highest: 1 in 27,643 girls born in 1976 were named Tora (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,502 in 1898, was only 1 in 43,128 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 32.4% of all girls named Tora (321) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s6#1,502 (1898)#1,502
1900s0
1910s17#2,140 (1910)#3,307
1920s5#4,805 (1927)#4,805
1930s5#4,181 (1936)#4,181
1940s6#4,651 (1948)#4,651
1950s45#3,662 (1950)#4,729
1960s89#2,645 (1969)#4,612
1970s321#1,775 (1976)#2,645
1980s110#4,746 (1981)#6,399
1990s108#5,955 (1993)#8,174
2000s90#8,716 (2004)#11,071
2010s115#6,207 (2014)#9,303
2020s73#5,465 (2022)#9,078

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.

Tora in 1978

girls
#2,390
37 births · 1 in 41,402 girls
boys
#5,059
6 births · 1 in 273,640 boys

Top girls' names in 1978

  1. #1Jennifer56,314
  2. #2Melissa28,327
  3. #3Jessica26,102
  4. #4Amy23,213
  5. #5Heather22,270
  6. #6Amanda20,520
  7. #7Angela20,517
  8. #8Sarah19,976
  9. #9Michelle18,856
  10. #10Nicole17,279
  11. #2,390Tora37

Top boys' names in 1978

  1. #1Michael67,127
  2. #2Jason51,600
  3. #3Christopher47,236
  4. #4David40,684
  5. #5James39,894
  6. #6Matthew34,282
  7. #7John34,014
  8. #8Robert33,374
  9. #9Brian29,432
  10. #10Joseph26,663
  11. #5,059Tora6
More about 1978

girls

1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 41,402 of them was named Tora, which outranked 79.2% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Tora
  1. #2,350Terina38
  2. #2,350Tijuana38
  3. #2,350Tristan38
  4. #2,390Tora37
  5. #2,390Allegra37
  6. #2,390Angle37
  7. #2,390Annabelle37
  8. #2,431Alexander36
  9. #2,431Amaris36
  10. #2,431Amira36

Tied with 40 names at #2,390; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1977
Risers
  1. 4,240Aja#4,652#412
  2. 1,987Kiley#2,606#619
  3. 1,951Kylee#2,838#887
  4. 1,785Winter#2,780#995
  5. 1,620Kylie#2,026#406
Fallers
  1. 913Shalon#868#1,781
  2. 760Farah#854#1,614
  3. 519Tennille#462#981
  4. 398Shawnte#740#1,138
  5. 362Farrah#177#539

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 273,640 of them was named Tora, which outranked 25.2% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Tora
  1. #4,554Zeth7
  2. #4,554Ziad7
  3. #4,554Zubin7
  4. #5,059Tora6
  5. #5,059Aamir6
  6. #5,059Aaren6
  7. #5,059Abdel6
  8. #5,772Aalon5
  9. #5,772Aaraon5
  10. #5,772Abbas5

Tied with 712 names at #5,059; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1977
Risers
  1. 3,237Dequan#4,164#927
  2. 626Nicholaus#1,367#741
  3. 617Nicklaus#1,515#898
  4. 578Zebulon#1,476#898
  5. 424Anwar#1,121#697
Fallers
  1. 674Kinte#834#1,508
  2. 668Kunta#572#1,240
  3. 417Telly#732#1,149
  4. 415Lesley#937#1,352
  5. 310Amin#904#1,214

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1978