Lanora
#5,167 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lanora has been given to 2,245 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #5,167 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1969, with 40 recorded.
Babies named Lanora, 2025
1 in 133,000
Lanora over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lanora?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 133,000
- 25 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 64,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,167
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 91,917 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lanora sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lanora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lanoras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lanora was born before 1959 — so the typical Lanora is around 66 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 12.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 14.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,335
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 12.9% of all recorded uses (289).
Is Lanora 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
- +720
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,614
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,078
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.79×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 62.5%
- Peak was 1969 (40)
- Years since peak
- 56
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.4% average annual change
Spellings of Lanora
Lanora is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 38.4% against Lanora's 0.10%.
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 Lanora is used
Across 1910–2025, Lanora was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 180,287 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Oklahoma1 in 33,333
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5Georgia1 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. Lanora has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lanora by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lanora
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Lanora
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lanora, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Lanora
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.