Loa — #6152 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Loa

The Social Security Administration has registered 887 babies named Loa between 1894 and 2024, spanning 131 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Loa currently holds the #6152 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 29 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Loa performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 172 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Loa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 43 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Loa in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Loa 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 887 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.