Lera
Lera is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 615th, in 1905.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192173 births
- Best rank
- #615in 1905
- Since 1885
- 2,599people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,599 girls have been named Lera in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 73 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 73 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lera | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 50 | |
| 1890s | 124 | |
| 1900s | 232 | |
| 1910s | 500 | |
| 1920s | 568 | |
| 1930s | 308 | |
| 1940s | 194 | |
| 1950s | 154 | |
| 1960s | 95 | |
| 1970s | 56 | |
| 1980s | 64 | |
| 1990s | 37 | |
| 2000s | 58 | |
| 2010s | 103 | |
| 2020s | 56 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Lera was the 864th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Lera
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eunapeak 1916
- Vergiepeak 1919
- Onniepeak 1922
- Goldiapeak 1918
- Virgiapeak 1919
- Rubiepeak 1921
- Verliepeak 1917
- Venniepeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.