Era Girl
How popular is Era?
#2,691 girl name in 2025
64 baby girls were named Era in the US in 2025, making it the 2691st most popular girl name.
Era popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #2,691 for girls (▲ 166 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 64 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+146% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #5,125 in 2015, #3,546 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1916 (157 girls) |
| Highest rank | #340 in 1898 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 4% boys, 96% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Era counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Era family of names ranked #1,922 for girls in 2025 (#2,095 the year before), with 72 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 64 | 89% |
| Eera | 8 | 11% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Era is most popular
Babies named Era per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New York: 0.1 per 1,000 (44 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (26 girls)
- Michigan: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Florida: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
Era by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 169 | #459 |
| 1890s | 522 | #340 |
| 1900s | 746 | #349 |
| 1910s | 1,207 | #412 |
| 1920s | 1,141 | #633 |
| 1930s | 554 | #834 |
| 1940s | 361 | #1,150 |
| 1950s | 248 | #1,819 |
| 1960s | 129 | #3,032 |
| 1970s | 104 | #4,037 |
| 1980s | 49 | #6,318 |
| 1990s | 39 | #7,737 |
| 2000s | 116 | #7,386 |
| 2010s | 268 | #3,551 |
| 2020s | 302 | #2,691 |
Girl names about as popular as Era
Questions
- Is Era a boy or girl name?
- Era is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 96% of babies named Era were girls.
- How popular is the name Era?
- 64 baby girls were named Era in the US in 2025, making it the 2691st most popular girl name.
- When was Era most popular?
- Era peaked in 1916, when 157 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #340 in 1898.
- How many people are named Era?
- 6,009 babies have been named Era in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,628 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 49.
- Where is Era most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Era was most common in New York, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.