Loah
#12,642 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Loah has been given to 69 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #12,642 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Loah, 2025
1 in 474,000
Loah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Loah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,642
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Loah 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Loah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Loahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Loah was born before 2022 — so the typical Loah is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 78.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 69
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 78.3% of all recorded uses (54).
Is Loah 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
- −2,680
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,894
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 53.8%
- Peak was 2022 (13)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.0% average annual change
Spellings of Loah
Loah is not the most common spelling — Joan is, with 24.9% against Loah's <0.01%.
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.
Loah around the world
Where Loah 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.
- Ireland2021–2021#764in 2021
- France2015–2015#7,767in 2015
- Canada2021–2021#2,202in 2021
Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Loah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Loah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Loah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.