Eura — unisex name
1,453 babies named Eura in U.S. Social Security records since 1882, with the highest year being 1920. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
22% of everyone ever named Eura was born in this single decade.
44 babies were named Eura in 1920 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Eura
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,453 babies named Eura between 1882 and 1982, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Eura currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1982. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 44 babies received it in a single year. Eura is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 84 additional births since 1912.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Eura performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 317 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Eura shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 92 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Eura in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Eura in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,453 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Eura at a glance
Last recorded 1982Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Eura popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1982–1882
- Peak year (1920)
- 44
- Annual births at peak — across 101 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1982.
1,453 total births across 101 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1920 with 44 births in a single year.
Eura popularity over time — boys
84 total births recorded since 1912 (Eura as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Eura accounts for 5% of total recorded use across both genders.
Eura by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 317 births that decade — 22% of Eura's all-time total
Eura decade highlights
- Peak decade 317 births
- Runner-up 305 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Eura's strongest decade
317 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 22% of all-time use.
Eura by state
Where Eura concentrates geographically — total births since 1882
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Louisiana | | 92 | 6.3% |
| #2 | Texas | | 60 | 4.1% |
| #3 | Georgia | | 28 | 1.9% |
| #4 | Tennessee | | 18 | 1.2% |
| #5 | Kentucky | | 14 | 1.0% |
| #6 | Alabama | | 6 | 0.4% |
| #7 | California | | 5 | 0.3% |
| #8 | Mississippi | | 5 | 0.3% |
92 of 1,453 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Louisiana 6.3% of nationwide
- Texas 4.1% of nationwide
- Georgia 1.9% of nationwide
- Tennessee 1.2% of nationwide
- Kentucky 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Louisiana accounts for 6.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1882–1982 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.