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Loma

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Loma has been given to 2,294 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1921, with 74 recorded.

Babies named Loma, 2023

1 in 663,000

Loma over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Loma: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Loma means

Loma is a given name.

The naming story behind Loma

Wikidata records Loma as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q121164799, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,289 girls were recorded with the name Loma between 1880 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 74 in 1921; its best national rank was #620 in 1882.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Loma between 1935 and 1935. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1935; its best national rank was #3,949 in 1935.

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 Loma?

Loma had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Loma 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Loma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lomas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Loma was born before 1925 — so the typical Loma is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.22%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
323
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 23.2% of all recorded uses (532).

Is Loma 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (74)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#620
1882

Spellings of Loma

Loma is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 17.9% against Loma's 0.04%.

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 Loma is used

Across 1910–2025, Loma was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 231,116 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 100,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 100,000
  5. 5West Virginia1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Kentucky1 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. Loma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Loma around the world

Where Loma 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.

  • France
    2005–2008
    #5,361
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1978–1978
    #626
    in 1978

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Loma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#620
1882
Peak year
1921
74 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,289
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,949
1935
Peak year
1935
5 that year
First recorded
1935
Last recorded
1935
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Loma

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

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Names with a curve like Loma

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

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Sibling names for Loma

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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