Loana
Loana was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,315 among girls’ names; 91 Americans have been recorded with it since 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loana?
#16,315 among girls’ names, 2025
Loana entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,315 in 2025.
11 babies in 1971, the peak
Loana peaked in 1971, when 11 girls were given it, #4,978 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,315 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,723 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,738 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,173 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,898 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,373 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,119 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,707 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,978 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,098 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 5 | #7,375 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,222 | 4.4 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,008 | 6.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Loana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Loana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Loana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loana, and how old are they?
An estimated 81 Americans named Loana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 292 people named Loana (291 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 63 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.6 times 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 20,463 babies since 1880, Loana is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 49 babies (10%), the fifth most given that year.
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.
More about Loana and names like it
- Compare Loana and LonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLoana peaked in 1971.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Loana since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Loana.
- Names starting with LMost given first.