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
- Peak · girls
- 1898 · 6 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 990since 1898
Tora over time
Rank among girls' names. Tora has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #10,107 | 9 | — | |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | — | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | — | |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | — | |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | — | |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | — | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | — | |
| 2015 | — | — | ||
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 | — | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | — | |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | — | |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | — | |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | — | |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | — | |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | — | |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | — | |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | — | |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | — | |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | — | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | — | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | — | |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | — | |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | — | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | — | |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 | — | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | — | |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 | — | |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,746 | 15 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,390 | 37 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #2,124 | 44 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,775 | 53 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #2,835 | 25 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,405 | 31 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #2,680 | 26 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,137 | 38 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #2,522 | 29 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,645 | 25 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,456 | 15 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 | — | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | #3,402 | 14 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | — | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | #3,662 | 9 | — | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
| 1947 | — | — | ||
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| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
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| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | — | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
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| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 | — | |
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | — | — | ||
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 | — | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | #2,140 | 6 | — | |
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| 1898 | #1,502 | 6 | — | |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
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| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
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.
Where Tora is popular in 1977
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,819 · 1 in 24,928
Best ever in a state: #396 in South Carolina, 1976.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #1,819 | 6 | 1 in 24,928 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arizona | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — |
| Colorado | — | — | — |
| Connecticut | — | — | — |
| Delaware | — | — | — |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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| West Virginia | — | — | — |
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| Wyoming | — | — | — |
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 Tora
- 164 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #10,107)
- 1,701 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #10,107)
- Debuted 1898
- Peaked 1898 at #1,502 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1899, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 32.4% of all girls named Tora (321) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | #1,502 (1898) | #1,502 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 17 | #2,140 (1910) | #3,307 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,805 (1927) | #4,805 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,181 (1936) | #4,181 |
| 1940s | 6 | #4,651 (1948) | #4,651 |
| 1950s | 45 | #3,662 (1950) | #4,729 |
| 1960s | 89 | #2,645 (1969) | #4,612 |
| 1970s | 321 | #1,775 (1976) | #2,645 |
| 1980s | 110 | #4,746 (1981) | #6,399 |
| 1990s | 108 | #5,955 (1993) | #8,174 |
| 2000s | 90 | #8,716 (2004) | #11,071 |
| 2010s | 115 | #6,207 (2014) | #9,303 |
| 2020s | 73 | #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 1977
Top girls' names in 1977
More about 1977
girls
1,533,146 girls got a published name in 1977; 1 in 34,844 of them was named Tora, which outranked 81.3% of the 11,329 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,091Tamie45
- #2,091Taneshia45
- #2,091Yasmine45
- #2,124Tora44
- #2,124Allegra44
- #2,124Alta44
- #2,124Ashanti44
- #2,162Alyce43
- #2,162Avery43
- #2,162Candance43
Tied with 37 names at #2,124; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.