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Cleora

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Cleora has been given to 1,712 babies in the U.S. since 1883. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Cleora, 1982

1 in 702,000

Cleora over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cleora: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cleora means

Cleora is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Cleora is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,712 girls were recorded with the name Cleora between 1883 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 68 in 1918; its best national rank was #706 in 1883.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cleora?

Cleora had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1982
1 in 702,000
5 of 3,507,638 births
Among girls only
1 in 339,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1982
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
486,263 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cleora sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1982 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 486,263 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cleora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cleoras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cleora was born before 1922 — so the typical Cleora is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
95
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1920s — 28.9% of all recorded uses (495).

Is Cleora rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (68)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#706
1883

Spellings of Cleora

Cleora is not the most common spelling — Clara is, with 32.0% against Cleora's 0.18%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cleora is used

Across 1910–2025, Cleora was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 263,657 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Kansas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  5. 5Iowa1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Missouri1 in —
  8. 8Mississippi1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cleora has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cleora around the world

Where Cleora ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cleora by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#706
1883
Peak year
1918
68 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
1,712
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cleora

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CleonaHonoraElioraZamoraSonoraEudoraCleoneLanoraCleolaSenoraDevoraElloraClellaKymoraDinoraLioraAnnoraMedoraKamoraLeanoraKemoraCledaCleaSamora

Sibling names for Cleora

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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