Ora — #3440 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ora

The Social Security Administration has registered 39,236 babies named Ora between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ora currently holds the #3440 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 920 babies received it in a single year. Ora is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,616 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ora performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 7,876 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ora shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 3,380 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Ora in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ora 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 39,236 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.