girls:
2.3k births since 1880
#3612 (37th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1935
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1880
#5513 (29th percentile)
The name Loma is the #5,513 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,289 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 28.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,612 (36.8% percentile) for all time with 2,284 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1935.
Loma has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1935 for boys). Birth data for Loma is available in 89 out of the 106 years between 1880 and 1985 (89 years for girls and 1 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 Loma has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Loma reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 11.4% percentile (ranked #536) with 58 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 94 births per million (ranked 5.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1985.
For boys, Loma reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #516) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1935.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Loma".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Loma. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Loma is pronounced as LOH-muh, which has 2 syllables.
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