Clora
Clora was last recorded in 1973, when 5 babies were given it; 1,800 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Clora mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Clora is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Clora?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,666, in 1973; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
49 babies in 1924, the peak
Clora peaked in 1924, when 49 girls were given it, #1,114 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 5 | #8,666 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,215 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,181 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,307 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,810 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,123 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,976 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,400 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,241 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,606 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 17 | #2,607 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,338 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,257 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,534 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,854 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,207 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,038 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,625 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,109 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,799 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,921 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,619 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,697 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,555 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,659 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,308 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,650 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,455 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,519 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 33 | #1,270 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,811 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,467 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 31 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,399 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 32 | #1,429 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,361 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 44 | #1,164 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 49 | #1,114 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 45 | #1,145 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 47 | #1,116 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 44 | #1,151 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 44 | #1,136 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 37 | #1,237 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 32 | #1,286 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 40 | #1,116 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 40 | #1,056 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 39 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 28 | #1,023 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 26 | #1,009 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 32 | #766 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 26 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 19 | #919 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,044 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 18 | #878 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 18 | #877 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 17 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 22 | #715 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 13 | #980 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 18 | #774 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 21 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 15 | #847 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 19 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 15 | #832 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 19 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 22 | #663 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 13 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 18 | #692 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 18 | #691 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 12 | #804 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 15 | #695 | 0.08 |
| 1889 | 16 | #644 | 0.09 |
| 1888 | 16 | #645 | 0.09 |
| 1887 | 7 | #965 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 16 | #558 | 0.11 |
| 1885 | 18 | #506 | 0.14 |
| 1884 | 13 | #589 | 0.10 |
| 1883 | 11 | #590 | 0.10 |
| 1882 | 6 | #833 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Clora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Clora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Clora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clora, and how old are they?
An estimated 299 Americans named Clora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (17% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 72 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 476 people named Clora (473 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 420 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,981 babies since 1880, Clora is the most given (91% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Clora
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Clora and names like it
- Compare Clora and CloriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sClora peaked in 1924.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clora since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Clora.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Clora alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.