Lanora
Lanora was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,167 among girls’ names; 2,245 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Lanora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 29 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lanora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lanora?
#5,167 among girls’ names, 2025
Lanora rose from #8,245 in 2015 to #5,167 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 15.6 per million.
40 babies in 1969, the peak
Lanora peaked in 1969, when 40 girls were given it, #1,991 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,167 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,887 | 13.0 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,656 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,868 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,670 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,781 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,550 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,269 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,596 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,811 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (122)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,245 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,751 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,346 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,898 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,150 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,800 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,174 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,259 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,207 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,426 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,564 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,338 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,218 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,941 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,602 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,316 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,922 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,665 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,528 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,728 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,306 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,483 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,860 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,866 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,192 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,961 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,993 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,182 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,148 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,698 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,200 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,861 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,642 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,127 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,740 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,924 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,604 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,175 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,979 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,466 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,342 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,780 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,178 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,118 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,834 | 15.0 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,481 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 40 | #1,991 | 23.7 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,109 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 35 | #1,988 | 21.2 |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,377 | 15.4 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,968 | 19.8 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,932 | 20.1 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,916 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,386 | 13.2 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,438 | 12.4 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,272 | 13.4 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,428 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,139 | 13.9 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,984 | 7.8 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,025 | 14.4 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,898 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,102 | 13.4 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,267 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,047 | 13.5 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,635 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,975 | 14.0 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,988 | 14.0 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,288 | 11.2 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,242 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,695 | 17.8 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,534 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,996 | 14.3 |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,729 | 17.9 |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,400 | 25.2 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,488 | 23.2 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,496 | 23.6 |
| 1939 | 31 | #1,332 | 28.3 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,619 | 20.8 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,401 | 26.3 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,463 | 25.0 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,320 | 29.6 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,334 | 28.7 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,456 | 25.8 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,999 | 15.9 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,476 | 24.4 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,635 | 21.3 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,053 | 15.2 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,616 | 22.5 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,793 | 19.3 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,301 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,519 | 24.6 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,838 | 18.4 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,702 | 20.7 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,629 | 22.5 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,795 | 19.5 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,038 | 15.9 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,780 | 19.5 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,625 | 21.6 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,960 | 16.6 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,719 | 20.1 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,091 | 15.2 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,192 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,719 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,507 | 12.5 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,598 | 12.6 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,380 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,764 | 20.9 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,488 | 27.1 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,086 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,770 | 21.8 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,383 | 30.3 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,382 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lanora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lanora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 122 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lanora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lanora, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 63% of the 2,245 Americans ever recorded as Lanora. The median Lanora alive today is 53 years old; half are between 29 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 1,302 people named Lanora (1,302 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,443 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 133 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 351 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 350 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 224 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 135 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 228 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Lanora born?
The states with the most babies named Lanora are Texas, Oklahoma and California, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 114 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 66 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 33 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lanora with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,534 babies since 1880, Lanora is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 25 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Lanora
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 Lanora and names like it
- Compare Lanora and LanoreBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLanora peaked in 1969.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lanora since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Lanora.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lanora alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.