girls:
2.6k births since 1885
#3394 (41st percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1885
#5260 (32nd percentile)
The name Lera is the #5,260 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,593 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 32.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,394 (40.6% percentile) for all time with 2,593 births since 1885.
Lera first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (first recorded for girls in 1885). Birth data for Lera is available in 127 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Lera reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 11.3% percentile (ranked #537) with 57 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 106 births per million (ranked 7.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lera ranks #935 for girls (1.3% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 9.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lera".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lera. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.1% confident that Lera is pronounced as LEH-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LIH-ruh, at 13.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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