Lera
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · girls
- 1903 · 29 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,609since 1885
Lera over time
Rank among girls' names. Lera has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
| 1964 | #3,879 | 12 |
| 1963 | #3,458 | 14 |
| 1962 | #3,293 | 15 |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1960 | #3,212 | 15 |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 |
| 1958 | #3,379 | 13 |
| 1957 | #3,309 | 13 |
| 1956 | #2,826 | 17 |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 |
| 1954 | #2,695 | 17 |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 |
| 1952 | #2,411 | 19 |
| 1951 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1950 | #2,535 | 16 |
| 1949 | #2,850 | 13 |
| 1948 | #2,589 | 15 |
| 1947 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1946 | #1,808 | 25 |
| 1945 | #2,237 | 15 |
| 1944 | #1,867 | 21 |
| 1943 | #1,703 | 25 |
| 1942 | #1,804 | 22 |
| 1941 | #2,018 | 17 |
| 1940 | #1,518 | 26 |
| 1939 | #1,585 | 23 |
| 1938 | #1,703 | 21 |
| 1937 | #1,539 | 24 |
| 1936 | #1,413 | 27 |
| 1935 | #1,219 | 34 |
| 1934 | #1,372 | 28 |
| 1933 | #1,123 | 39 |
| 1932 | #1,237 | 34 |
| 1931 | #1,175 | 37 |
| 1930 | #1,161 | 41 |
| 1929 | #1,094 | 45 |
| 1928 | #1,191 | 41 |
| 1927 | #1,066 | 52 |
| 1926 | #997 | 56 |
| 1925 | #988 | 57 |
| 1924 | #1,031 | 56 |
| 1923 | #928 | 62 |
| 1922 | #997 | 56 |
| 1921 | #862 | 73 |
| 1920 | #865 | 70 |
| 1919 | #890 | 62 |
| 1918 | #900 | 63 |
| 1917 | #849 | 65 |
| 1916 | #877 | 60 |
| 1915 | #979 | 46 |
| 1914 | #827 | 50 |
| 1913 | #767 | 47 |
| 1912 | #770 | 42 |
| 1911 | #790 | 30 |
| 1910 | #710 | 35 |
| 1909 | #731 | 30 |
| 1908 | #678 | 32 |
| 1907 | #1,037 | 14 |
| 1906 | #742 | 24 |
| 1905 | #609 | 33 |
| 1904 | #805 | 20 |
| 1903 | #607 | 29 |
| 1902 | #797 | 19 |
| 1901 | #918 | 13 |
| 1900 | #885 | 18 |
| 1899 | #728 | 19 |
| 1898 | #790 | 18 |
| 1897 | #826 | 15 |
| 1896 | #843 | 15 |
| 1895 | #986 | 11 |
| 1894 | #850 | 13 |
| 1893 | #901 | 11 |
| 1892 | #762 | 15 |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | #1,099 | 7 |
| 1889 | #620 | 17 |
| 1888 | #663 | 15 |
| 1887 | #1,036 | 6 |
| 1886 | #1,108 | 5 |
| 1885 | #842 | 7 |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Lera! It came in at #842, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1891, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Lera is popular in 1918
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#354 · 1 in 3,003
- Alabama#355 · 1 in 2,974
- Texas#416 · 1 in 2,751
Best ever in a state: #248 in Tennessee, 1913.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #354 | 9 | 1 in 3,003 |
| Alabama | #355 | 9 | 1 in 2,974 |
| Texas | #416 | 18 | 1 in 2,751 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lera
- 4,020 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #9,457)
- 504 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #9,457)
- 1,010 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #9,457)
- Biggest jump: 373 spots in 1888 (#1,036 → #663)
- Biggest drop: 479 spots in 1890 (#620 → #1,099)
- Debuted 1885
- Peaked 1903 at #607 (29 births)
- Births halved by 1907, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1908–1923
- Highest: 1 in 8,837 girls born in 1905 were named Lera (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #607 in 1903, was only 1 in 9,033 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 21.8% of all girls named Lera (568) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 50 | #620 (1889) | #854 |
| 1890s | 124 | #728 (1899) | #865 |
| 1900s | 232 | #607 (1903) | #781 |
| 1910s | 500 | #710 (1910) | #836 |
| 1920s | 568 | #862 (1921) | #1,002 |
| 1930s | 308 | #1,123 (1933) | #1,353 |
| 1940s | 194 | #1,518 (1940) | #2,103 |
| 1950s | 154 | #2,245 (1951) | #2,915 |
| 1960s | 95 | #3,212 (1960) | #4,963 |
| 1970s | 56 | #4,761 (1970) | #6,691 |
| 1980s | 64 | #6,291 (1984) | #8,613 |
| 1990s | 37 | #10,479 (1992) | #11,715 |
| 2000s | 58 | #9,539 (2007) | #12,131 |
| 2010s | 103 | #6,248 (2018) | #10,492 |
| 2020s | 66 | #6,680 (2023) | #9,452 |
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.
Lera in 1918
Top girls' names in 1918
More about 1918
girls
1,157,631 girls got a published name in 1918; 1 in 18,375 of them was named Lera, which outranked 83.9% of the 5,585 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #894Gay64
- #894Jamie64
- #894Onie64
- #900Lera63
- #900Aida63
- #900Aldona63
- #900Carroll63
- #910Corrie62
- #910Francine62
- #910Leo62
Tied with 9 names at #900; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 547Jesse#1,507 → #960
- ↑ 494Liberty#1,079 → #585
- ↑ 389Marilynn#1,337 → #948
- ↑ 312Margueritte#1,281 → #969
- ↑ 306Syble#807 → #501
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.