Lura
Lura is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 202nd, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1917230 births
- Best rank
- #202in 1885
- Since 1880
- 9,550people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,550 girls have been named Lura in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 230 births.
The name has all but left use: 9 births in 2024, against 230 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 68 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lura | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 727 | |
| 1890s | 948 | |
| 1900s | 920 | |
| 1910s | 1,553 | |
| 1920s | 1,629 | |
| 1930s | 962 | |
| 1940s | 789 | |
| 1950s | 626 | |
| 1960s | 470 | |
| 1970s | 283 | |
| 1980s | 252 | |
| 1990s | 154 | |
| 2000s | 98 | |
| 2010s | 93 | |
| 2020s | 46 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Lura was the 419th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Lura
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Berthapeak 1918
- Linniepeak 1921
- Fanniepeak 1918
- Vinapeak 1920
- Nelliepeak 1918
- Addiepeak 1920
- Dorapeak 1921
- Medapeak 1915
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.