Lera
Lera is a girl's name that peaked in 1921, when it was the 862nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 9,457th. About 770 Leras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lera
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,609
- Estimated living today
- 770
- Median age today
- 57
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 862nd
- Rank in 2025
- 9,457th
- First recorded
- 1885
How old the living Leras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,609 babies given the name since 1885, about 770 are alive — 30 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Leras
- Lera Auerbach (born 1973)Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
- Lera Kudryavtseva (born 1971)actor, singer and TV personality
- Lera Boroditsky (born 1976)American psychologist
- Lera Lynn (born 1984)American singer-songwriter
People named Lera with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lera is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lera is most concentrated in Alabama (16.9×), Tennessee (7.0×), Texas (4.8×), Mississippi (4.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular girls’ names the year Lera peaked:
Lera elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Lera | 16 | 4,535th |
| Poland girls | Lera | 5 birth registrations | 600th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Lera against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.