How rare is the name Leora?

4,545 people in the United States have the first name Leora, about 1 in 66,454. It ranks #4,198 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LEORA

#4,198

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,545
About
1 in 66,454
This common or more
83.7%
Who bears it

Of the 4,545 people named Leora, 78.1% reported their origin as White, 9.8% as Black and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Leora peaked in 1921, when 255 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1921
Births that year
255
In 2025*
163 ▼36%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 12,125 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Leora by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #609. The largest share of babies named Leora, 36.1%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#692288
1890s#617528
1900s#609769
1910s#7491,852
1920s#8572,165
1930s#1,0591,304
1940s#1,551828
1950s#2,089648
1960s#2,702468
1970s#3,820332
1980s#3,944402
1990s#5,158379
2000s#5,227523
2010s#3,930862
2020s#2,983777
Before 19017.3%
Greatest Generation 1901–2736.1%
Silent Generation 1928–4517.9%
Baby boom 1946–6410%
Generation X 1965–804.8%
Millennials 1981–965%
Generation Z 1997–127.1%
2013 and later11.8%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Leora is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Leora has been most common in Nebraska (3.7×), Iowa (2.7×), and Kansas (2.7×), and least common in Louisiana (0.32×).

5,929 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Leora

#4,196 Maximillian · 4,552#4,197 Katya · 4,550#4,199 Yves · 4,543#4,200 Clive · 4,541

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Leora, most common first.

#12,946 Lera · 945#20,756 Leira · 495#25,390 Leor · 374#33,953 Leara · 242#49,348 Leory · 126#51,981 Leyra · 110

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