girls:
39.2k births since 1880
#687 (88th percentile)
boys:
5.6k births since 1880
#1586 (65th percentile)
overall:
44.8k births since 1880
#1160 (85th percentile)
The name Ora is the #1,160 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 44,799 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 85.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #687 (88.0% percentile) for all time with 39,189 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #1,586 (65.4% percentile) for all time with 5,610 births since 1880.
Ora has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Ora has been given predominantly to girls, with 87.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Ora were girls.
For girls, Ora reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 66.6% percentile (ranked #199) with 783 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 1,932 births per million (ranked 53.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ora ranks #910 for girls (3.9% percentile) with 24 births per million, which is 1.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ora reached its peak popularity in 1882, achieving the 30.2% percentile (ranked #144) with 549 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 578 births per million (ranked 28.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ora".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ora. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.5% confident that Ora is pronounced as AW-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is OH-ruh, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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