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Leora

#1,356 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly other, through Leonora

Leora has been given to 12,125 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,356 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 255 recorded.

Babies named Leora, 2025

1 in 20,300

Leora over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leora: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly other, through Leonora

Hebrew

What Leora means

Leora belongs to the name family reached through Leora → Leonora → Eleonora → Eleanor. Its meaning is “other”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Possibly a variant of the modern Israeli name transliterated as Liora, from Hebrew, ליאורה "my light", or an American contraction of Leonora.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Leora (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Leora is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Israeli, Leonora, Eleonora and Eleanor.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,119 girls were recorded with the name Leora between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 255 in 1921; its best national rank was #301 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,815 in 2020 to #1,356 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,204 in 2015 to #1,356 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Leora between 1917 and 1917. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1917; its best national rank was #3,792 in 1917.

How common is Leora?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 20,300
163 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 9,860
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,356
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leora 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,099 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leoras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leora was born before 1933 — so the typical Leora is around 92 today.

Median birth year
1933
About 92 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,391
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Choose a decade

1920s — 17.9% of all recorded uses (2,165).

Is Leora 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
+166
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+459
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+848
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.90×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.9%
Peak was 1921 (255)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#301
1880

Spellings of Leora

Leora is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 22.1% against Leora's 0.33%.

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 Leora is used

Across 2016–2025, Leora was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 14,941 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

225 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 4,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 5,263
  3. 3Ohio1 in 10,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 12,500
  5. 5Michigan1 in 14,286
  6. 6California1 in 20,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 20,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 20,000

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.

Leora around the world

Where Leora 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
    1998–2025
    #1,362
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2018
    #809
    in 2018
  • France
    1991–2025
    #3,004
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1986–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Leora

People whose public names include Leora, 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.

Leora by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,356
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 459
Best rank ever
#301
1880
Peak year
1921
255 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,119
Count in 2025
163

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,792
1917
Peak year
1917
6 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1917
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leora

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

LeonoraLeoneLeolaAloraLeotaLeonorAmoraEloraZoraKimoraLeonaKoraLeonieElnoraThoraAdoraDeboraLeonnaFloraKamoraLenoraLeonoreLioraLeo

Names with a curve like Leora

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

AgathaUnaGeorgieIonaWilhelminaOdessaAlineLavinaZellaMagdaleneEulaliaPhilomena

Sibling names for Leora

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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