girls:
5.8k births since 1880
#2178 (62nd percentile)
boys:
46 births since 1914
#4540 (1st percentile)
overall:
5.9k births since 1880
#3538 (54th percentile)
The name Era is the #3,538 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,878 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 54.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,178 (61.9% percentile) for all time with 5,832 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,540 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 46 births since 1914.
Era has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1914 for boys). Birth data for Era is available in 135 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (135 years for girls and 7 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Era has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 85.1% of babies named Era were girls.
For girls, Era reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 26.2% percentile (ranked #423) with 145 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 306 births per million (ranked 23.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1998, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Era ranks #912 for girls (3.7% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 7.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Era reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #530) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 10 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Era ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 37.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Era".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Era. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.0% confident that Era is pronounced as EH-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is IH-ruh, at 39.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 R AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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