Loma

Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · Last seen for boys in 1935 at #3,645
Given to girls 99.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
1882 · 10 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,289
since 1880

Loma over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Loma has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201882peak #596, 1882girls
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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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1966#5,2737—
1965#3,95211—
1964#3,69213—
1963#2,96018—
1962#3,78212—
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1957#3,69611—
1956#2,82617—
1955#2,63518—
1954#2,37821—
1953#2,17323—
1952#2,32720—
1951#2,01624—
1950#1,83527—
1949#1,76729—
1948#1,64832—
1947#1,60235—
1946#1,72327—
1945#1,45031—
1944#1,48630—
1943#1,42334—
1942#1,36735—
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1936#1,37528—
1935#1,33130#3,6455
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First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Loma was already there! It came in at #679, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1883, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Loma is popular in 1882

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Loma
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
  • Biggest jump: 248 spots in 1917 (#1,127 → #879)
  • Biggest drop: 355 spots in 1925 (#941 → #1,296)
Rise & fade · girls
2 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1882 at #596 (10 births)
  • Births halved by 1883, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 35 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1893–1909
Share of babies · girls
1 in 9,973
  • Highest: 1 in 9,973 girls born in 1901 were named Loma (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 320,916 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #596 in 1882, was only 1 in 10,785 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 23.2% of all girls named Loma (532) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s41#596 (1882)#828
1890s114#790 (1898)#925
1900s220#645 (1901)#775
1910s431#782 (1913)#931
1920s532#857 (1921)#1,049
1930s317#1,043 (1931)#1,337
1940s311#1,272 (1940)#1,535
1950s184#1,835 (1950)#2,742
1960s113#2,960 (1963)#4,297
1970s11#7,070 (1970)#7,681
1980s10#10,411 (1981)#10,544
1990s0——
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2010s0——
2020s5#15,194 (2023)#15,194

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.

Loma in 1882

girls
#596
10 births · 1 in 10,785 girls

Top girls' names in 1882

  1. #1Mary8,148
  2. #2Anna3,143
  3. #3Emma2,303
  4. #4Elizabeth2,186
  5. #5Minnie2,004
  6. #6Margaret1,821
  7. #7Ida1,673
  8. #8Alice1,542
  9. #9Bertha1,508
  10. #10Annie1,492
  11. #596Loma10
More about 1882

girls

107,847 girls got a published name in 1882; 1 in 10,785 of them was named Loma, which outranked 42.0% of the 1,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Loma
  1. #560Queen11
  2. #560Queenie11
  3. #560Sybil11
  4. #596Loma10
  5. #596Annabel10
  6. #596Ara10
  7. #596Attie10
  8. #634Aline9
  9. #634Amie9
  10. #634Avis9

Tied with 37 names at #596; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1881
Risers
  1. ↑ 380Clementine#740 → #360
  2. ↑ 337Lissie#830 → #493
  3. ↑ 323Lonnie#830 → #507
  4. ↑ 300Erna#830 → #530
  5. ↑ 300Hedwig#830 → #530
Fallers
  1. ↓ 405Leatha#503 → #908
  2. ↓ 369Grayce#539 → #908
  3. ↓ 369Maye#539 → #908
  4. ↓ 369Rella#539 → #908
  5. ↓ 326Honora#582 → #908

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

See the top 100 for 1882 →