first name
LORA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 35,094 people named Lora, 84% reported their origin as White, 6.4% as Black and 4.1% 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.
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Lora peaked in 1963, when 1,598 babies got the name.
At least 52,484 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.
Lora by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #323. The largest share of babies named Lora, 29.5%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
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 Lora is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lora has been most common in West Virginia (3.5×), Kentucky (2.6×), and Indiana (2.2×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.27×).
43,358 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 Lora
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lora, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Lora ranks #4,798 of 156,621, with 7,137 people. See Lora as a last name
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