Pura

Girls' name

Pure

Pura has been given to 173 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 1926, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Pura, 1979

1 in 665,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pura: meaning, origin, and history

Pure

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pura means

Pura means “pure”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Pura is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈpu.ɾa/ for Pura.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 173 girls were recorded with the name Pura between 1922 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1926; its best national rank was #3,494 in 1926.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Pura?

Pura had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979: 1 in 665,000; 5 of 3,326,731 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1979: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 461,184 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Pura 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 1979 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 461,184 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pura. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Puras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pura was born before 1949 — so the typical Pura is around 76 today.

Median birth year: 1949; About 76 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 37.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 85; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (44).

Is Pura 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1926 (9)
Years since peak: 99; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,494; 1926

Spellings of Pura

Pura is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 24.1% against Pura's <0.01%.

Laura24.1%801,811
Sara13.1%436,193
Paula8.4%280,856
Nora5.8%193,138
Tara5.3%175,812
Cora4.7%156,028
Vera4.5%149,456
Dora3.2%105,930

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 Pura is used

Across 1910–2025, Pura was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 918,049 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in —
2Texas1 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. Pura has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pura around the world

Where Pura 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
1965–1972
#2,177
in 1972

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Pura 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: —
Best rank ever: #3,494; 1926
Peak year: 1926; 9 that year
First recorded: 1922
Last recorded: 1979
All-time count: 173
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Pura

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

Purvi Sura Purity Purpose Pure Tura Ketura Dura Nura Purva Aroura Amaura Miura Alura Elaura Kura Aloura Kamoura Azura Ventura Zura Noura Tamura Katura

Sibling names for Pura

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

Berta Delma Allene Darline Concepcion Easter Leatrice Ima

For a brother

Jewel Napoleon Raymon Domenick Hosea Rollin Wilburn Wilford

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