Era
Feminine · “an age”
Era is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 5,955 girls against 54 boys since 1880.
Era is a period of time — the Latin aera, which originally meant a set of counters used in reckoning, before it came to mean the reckoning itself.
How old is the name Era?
Era was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Era alive today was born around 1922, making them about 103 years old. About 1,600 people named Era are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Era most popular?
Era peaked in 1898, reaching #340 nationally. Today it ranks #2691, 2,351 places below that high. See the whole 1898 chart.
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Where it comes from
From aera to Era
The story of Era
Short vowel-ended names were highly productive in nineteenth-century American naming — Era, Ora, Ida, Ada, Eva, Elva — many of them clippings and some of them word-names. Era appears in the registers from the 1880s, most strongly in the South and Midwest, and peaked around 1890 before disappearing almost entirely.
Meaningscholars disagree
an age, a period
The likeliest reading is the English era, from the Latin aera — the plural of aes, 'brass' or 'counter', which came to mean a number used in reckoning and then a period counted from a fixed point. Era is also read as a clipping of Erma or Vera. Both routes are plausible.
How the name formed
- aera
- era
- Era
Related forms: Ora · Erma · Era
Pronouncing Era
EER-uh
Two syllables, stress on the first. Some bearers say AIR-uh, and both are established.
Nicknames for Era
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1916157 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #340reached in 1898
- Change vs 2022
- +28.0%64 in 2025, from 50
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Era in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ora in English — related form
- Erma in English — related form
- Era in Albanian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, New Jersey.
Eras among us
people named Era are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 25,114 born in 2025 was named Era
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Era
- #2691
- Era on the 2025 chart
- #888
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Era went to 64 girls in 2025, but Eera is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 72, which makes it the 888th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,803 places above the chart.
- Era64
- Eera8
About 1 girl in 22,323 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 25,114 for Era itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Era sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Era is headed
Era should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Era beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Era in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The reckoning-counter etymology is a genuinely good piece of word history.
- Three letters, two syllables, and never misheard.
- It exists independently in Albanian, where it means 'wind'.
- It is an ordinary English noun.
- The first vowel splits between two readings.
- It is strongly period-coded to the nineteenth century.
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Feminine · #2691 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Eras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Era are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Era?
- Era is the most-used spelling in US records — 64 of the 72 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Eera.
- How popular is the name Era in 2025?
- Era ranks #2691 among US girl names in 2025, with 64 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Era?
- About 1 in every 25,114 US girls born in 2025 was named Era — 64 in all.
- Will my child share the name Era with classmates?
- Era will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Era
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