Loma
Loma was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 2,294 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loma?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,617, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
74 babies in 1921, the peak
Loma peaked in 1921, when 74 girls were given it, #859 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,617 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,691 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,368 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,027 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,581 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,366 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,379 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,567 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,086 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 13 | #3,806 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,025 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,919 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,409 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,600 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,488 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,311 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,825 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,885 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,681 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,410 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,213 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,373 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,039 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,857 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,786 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 32 | #1,657 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 35 | #1,619 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,750 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,466 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,506 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 34 | #1,435 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 35 | #1,376 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,634 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,283 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 32 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 39 | #1,174 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,758 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,403 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,340 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,392 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 36 | #1,188 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,659 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 45 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 37 | #1,241 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 41 | #1,168 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 56 | #1,003 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 44 | #1,168 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 46 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 37 | #1,312 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 65 | #947 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 60 | #960 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 53 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 74 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 56 | #983 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 47 | #1,068 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 60 | #924 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 62 | #885 | 0.06 |
| 1916 | 39 | #1,137 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 56 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 43 | #893 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 45 | #787 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 39 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 24 | #892 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,148 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 23 | #860 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 21 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 20 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 24 | #754 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 25 | #722 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 18 | #867 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 20 | #776 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 20 | #784 | 0.08 |
| 1901 | 24 | #655 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 25 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1899 | 15 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 18 | #804 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 13 | #917 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 17 | #803 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 11 | #1,027 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 14 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 12 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,434 | 0.03 |
| 1887 | 7 | #995 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1884 | 6 | #982 | 0.05 |
| 1882 | 10 | #620 | 0.09 |
| 1881 | 5 | #900 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 7 | #714 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Loma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Loma has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 90 years of records.
Girls and boys named Loma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loma, and how old are they?
An estimated 519 Americans named Loma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 67 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 846 people named Loma (805 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 683 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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).
Where are babies named Loma born?
The states with the most babies named Loma are Texas, Tennessee and Oklahoma, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Oklahoma are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 207 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Tennessee | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Oklahoma | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| South Carolina | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| West Virginia | 12 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kentucky | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Loma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Loma is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Loma with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Loma
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 Loma and names like it
- Compare Loma and BirthaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLoma peaked in 1921.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Loma since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Loma.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Loma alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.