Loa
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 4 babies a year in England and Wales.
Loa by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Loa. In the US, 9 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 29 babies in 1924, making it a 1920s name.
What we can tell you about Loa
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Loa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.