Ora
Ora is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 45 births. Its best rank was 104th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 450.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1919920 births
- Best rank
- #104in 1881
- Since 1880
- 44,852people given the name
The story in the numbers
39,236 girls have been named Ora in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 920 births.
The name has all but left use: 45 births in 2024, against 920 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 5,616 boys have also been given it, 13% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ora | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,391 | |
| 1890s | 3,876 | |
| 1900s | 4,262 | |
| 1910s | 7,259 | |
| 1920s | 7,876 | |
| 1930s | 5,116 | |
| 1940s | 3,653 | |
| 1950s | 2,291 | |
| 1960s | 997 | |
| 1970s | 436 | |
| 1980s | 293 | |
| 1990s | 157 | |
| 2000s | 149 | |
| 2010s | 277 | |
| 2020s | 203 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Ora was the 203rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Ora
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ethapeak 1920
- Olliepeak 1919
- Lilliepeak 1919
- Clemmiepeak 1916
- Dolliepeak 1921
- Artiepeak 1916
- Pinkiepeak 1920
- Altapeak 1918
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.