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Era

#2,704 in 2025Girls' name

Wind

Era has been given to 6,009 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,704 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 157 recorded.

Babies named Era, 2025

1 in 51,800

Era over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Era: meaning, origin, and history

Wind

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Era means

Era means “wind”.

Origin, language, and formation

Era is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,955 girls were recorded with the name Era between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 157 in 1916; its best national rank was #340 in 1898.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,566 in 2020 to #2,704 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,173 in 2015 to #2,704 in 2025.

In the United States, 54 boys were recorded with the name Era between 1914 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1920; its best national rank was #2,737 in 1914.

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 Era?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,800
64 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,704
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,906 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Era 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 2025 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 35,906 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Era. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eras were born

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

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,255
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1910s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (1,207).

Is Era 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
+161
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+862
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,469
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.46×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.8%
Peak was 1916 (157)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#340
1898

Where Era is used

Across 1910–2025, Era was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 32,786 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

021 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 4,762
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 10,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 12,500
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 14,286
  5. 5Georgia1 in 16,667
  6. 6Texas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 25,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 33,333

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. Era has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Era around the world

Where Era 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.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2024
    #3,908
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Era

People whose public names include Era, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Era in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Era. Linked forms have their own page here.

AraIraEriaHeraErja

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Era by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,704
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 862
Best rank ever
#340
1898
Peak year
1916
157 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,955
Count in 2025
64

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,737
1914
Peak year
1920
10 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
54
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Era

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

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Names with a curve like Era

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Era, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Era

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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