Loa
Loa was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,713 among girls’ names; 904 Americans have been recorded with it since 1894 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loa?
#6,713 among girls’ names, 2025
Loa rose from #13,880 in 2015 to #6,713 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 10.6 per million.
29 babies in 1924, the peak
Loa peaked in 1924, when 29 girls were given it, #1,586 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,713 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,299 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,482 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,119 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,866 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,980 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,477 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,250 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,235 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,754 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,880 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,603 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,696 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,925 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,880 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,151 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,305 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,877 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,178 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,404 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,631 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,944 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,191 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,741 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,482 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,245 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,147 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,379 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,685 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,623 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,158 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,770 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,777 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,988 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,240 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,683 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,264 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,197 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,267 | 11.8 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,151 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,251 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,660 | 20.1 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,733 | 19.0 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,145 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,535 | 23.1 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,254 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,048 | 15.3 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,810 | 18.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,953 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,371 | 12.2 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,966 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,140 | 14.3 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,148 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,974 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,212 | 14.3 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,976 | 16.4 |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,586 | 23.2 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,831 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,438 | 12.5 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,715 | 10.5 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,860 | 18.4 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,583 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,159 | 14.7 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,877 | 17.6 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,581 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,020 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,770 | 10.5 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,036 | 9.6 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,225 | 9.0 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,878 | 19.1 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,390 | 14.4 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,035 | 18.2 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,092 | 16.7 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,738 | 21.5 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,682 | 21.3 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,194 | 35.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Loa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Loa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Loa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loa, and how old are they?
An estimated 404 Americans named Loa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 6 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 525 people named Loa (477 women and girls, 48 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 373 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 137,556 babies since 1880, Loa is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 1,324 babies (1.3%), again the third 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 Loa
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 Loa and names like it
- Compare Loa and LolaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLoa peaked in 1924.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Loa since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Loa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Loa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.