Ura
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ura has been given to 578 babies in the U.S. since 1887. 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 1917, with 17 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% girls, 12% boys all-time.
Babies named Ura, 1955
1 in 803,000
Ura 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Ura over time
In 1992, Ura went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Ura?
Ura had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1955, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1955
- 1 in 803,000
- 5 of 4,014,099 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 391,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1955
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 556,473 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ura sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1955 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 556,473 children born in 1955 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ura. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Uras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ura was born before 1915 — so the typical Ura is around 110 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 24.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 14.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (124).
Is Ura 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1917 (17)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.9% average annual change
Where Ura is used
Across 1910–2025, Ura was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 584,029 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Ura has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ura by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Ura
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ura
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.