Lera is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Lera in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Lera in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Lera by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Lera ranks at #8,296. That means there are 8,295 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lera.
Lera is not one of the particularly popular names, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2005, where the name Lera was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Lera and were born in the USA in 2005 please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Lera even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1905, it ranked on position 576 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lera was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Even though the popularity of the name Lera has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 10 times by young parents to their newborn daughters and thus landed at #8,408 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular girls' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 10 girls named Lera, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Lera'.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Lera in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 679 women and girls named Lera, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 679 women and girls named Lera live in no more than 8 different states, including for example Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi. In all other 41 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Lera. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Lera lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Lera and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Lera relative to its female population is Alabama. And even there, only one in 13,116 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Lera.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With four letters, the name Lera is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lera and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lera, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lera
Lera
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
E
R
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
E
R
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lera sounds like this:
