Lera

#9,823 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Valeriya

Lera has been given to 2,609 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #9,823 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Lera, 2025

1 in 332,000

Lera over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lera: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Valeriya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lera means

Lera is a short form of Valeriya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Valeriya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,609 girls were recorded with the name Lera between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 73 in 1921; its best national rank was #615 in 1905.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,273 in 2020 to #9,823 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,723 in 2015 to #9,823 in 2025.

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.

How common is Lera?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 332,000; 10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 161,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #9,823; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 229,791 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lera 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lera was born before 1926 — so the typical Lera is around 99 today.

Median birth year: 1926; About 99 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 21.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 8.4%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 633; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 21.8% of all recorded uses (568).

Is Lera 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: +4,677; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −550; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −1,100; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.77×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 13.7%; Peak was 1921 (73)
Years since peak: 104; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 38.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #615; 1905

Spellings of Lera

Lera is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 12.2% against Lera's 0.03%.

Lisa12.2%967,229
Laura10.1%801,811
Debra7.0%550,695
Sara5.5%436,193
Lori4.3%341,911
Clara3.8%300,524
Eva3.6%284,761
Leah3.2%256,488

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 Lera is used

Across 1910–2025, Lera was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 47,202 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Alabama1 in 14,286
2Tennessee1 in 33,333
3Mississippi1 in 50,000
4Texas1 in 50,000
5Georgia1 in 100,000
6Kentucky1 in 100,000
7Arkansas1 in —
8Oklahoma1 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. Lera has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lera around the world

Where Lera 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
2009–2023
#5,688
in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Lera

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

Lera LynnComposer
b. 1984
Lera BoroditskyProfessor
b. 1976
Lera Millard ThomasPolitician
1900–1993

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.

Lera in other languages

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

Lira Lyra

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

Lera by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #9,823
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 550
Best rank ever: #615; 1905
Peak year: 1921; 73 that year
First recorded: 1885
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 2,609
Count in 2025: 10

Names similar to Lera

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

Kera Sera Cera Siera Hera Tiera Meera Zera Mera Leroy Era Amera Ameera Veera Ciera Valera Jera Shera Tera Lavera Alvera Kiera Alera Samera

Names with a curve like Lera

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

Elvina Elvie Eudora Edyth Garnett Fairy Alverta Ozella Margarete Ossie Leonore Verlie

Sibling names for Lera

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

For a sister

Adell Margarette Idella Marjory Beryl Vina Albina Garnet

For a brother

Trinidad Antone Buford Regis Cletus Dewitt Eldridge Junius

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