girls:
867 births since 1894
#4849 (15th percentile)
overall:
867 births since 1894
#6872 (11th percentile)
The name Loa is the #6,872 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 867 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 11.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,849 (15.1% percentile) for all time with 867 births since 1894.
Loa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (first recorded for girls in 1894). Birth data for Loa is available in 74 out of the 130 years between 1894 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, Loa reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #586) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 34 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Loa ranks #930 for girls (1.8% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 37.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Loa".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Loa is pronounced as LOH-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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