Era

Where Era comes from

Era hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #518 among girls — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1898
    Peak, #340
    84 babies named Era — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1937
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,144.
  4. 1944
    Era Cihanşina born
    actress
  5. 1994
    Era Istrefi born
    Kosovo-Albanian singer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Era Istrefi · Kosovo-Albanian singer, born 1994
  • Era Cihanşina · actress, born 1944
  • Era Bell Thompson · American journalist, 1905–1986
  • Era Ojdanić · Serbian singer, born 1947
  • Era Baumann · Swiss handball player, born 2007

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.