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Loma

Loma reached its high-water mark in 1921 at number 857, and has been recorded 2,294 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 540 Lomas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 76.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Loma boys named Loma

By the numbers

Total US births
2,294
Estimated living today
540
Median age today
76
Peak year
1921
Best rank
857th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1880
Girls / boys
2,289 / 5

How old the living Lomas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,294 babies given the name since 1880, about 540 are alive — 24 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1949 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.

Where Loma is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Loma is most concentrated in Texas (8.1×), Tennessee (2.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1921

The most popular girls’ names the year Loma peaked:

All the names of 1921

Loma elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Loma 20 5,361st

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.

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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.