Mora
Mora was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,769 among girls’ names; 945 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mora mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mora is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mora?
#7,769 among girls’ names, 2025
Mora fell from #6,179 in 2015 to #7,769 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 8.7 per million.
24 babies in 2019, the peak
Mora peaked in 2019, when 24 girls were given it, #5,406 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,769 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,284 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,841 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,389 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,508 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,456 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,406 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,431 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,615 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,339 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,179 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,360 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,033 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,931 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,489 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,780 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,750 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,294 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,861 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,108 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,026 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,334 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,035 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,834 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,561 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,704 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,059 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,939 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,192 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,346 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,363 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,134 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,386 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,167 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,422 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,797 | 4.2 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,521 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,542 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,324 | 3.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,407 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,162 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,002 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,295 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,185 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,757 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,520 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,752 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,287 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,530 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,303 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,447 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,532 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,909 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,899 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,747 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,170 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,625 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,639 | 5.7 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,372 | 4.3 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,606 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,078 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,502 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,422 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,678 | 6.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,663 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,701 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,671 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,152 | 8.5 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,936 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,373 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 11 | #3,000 | 9.2 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,541 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,869 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,867 | 9.9 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,889 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,794 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,758 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,755 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,071 | 15.7 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,608 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,344 | 13.2 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,218 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,724 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,085 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,123 | 16.7 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,855 | 20.6 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,731 | 22.9 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,548 | 26.5 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,524 | 26.7 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,497 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,098 | 42.0 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,539 | 25.7 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,637 | 22.4 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,239 | 33.0 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,175 | 37.7 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,301 | 31.5 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,420 | 28.0 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,241 | 33.6 |
| 1887 | 10 | #778 | 68.5 |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,009 | 45.1 |
| 1881 | 6 | #797 | 65.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mora, and how old are they?
An estimated 613 Americans named Mora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 50. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 955 people named Mora (891 women and girls, 64 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 540 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 23,530 babies since 1880, Mora is the third most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 360 babies (3.9%), the fourth 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mora
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.
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