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Sonora: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 55 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,771 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,771 in 1992; #3,023 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sonora in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,023 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #2,771.
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Sonora: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 55 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,771 in 1992 · most girls in one year: 62 (2023).
In 2025, 55 US girls were named Sonora, making it the 3,023rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 98 places from #2,925 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 57 girls named Sonora in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,771, reached in 1992. The most girls given the name in a single year was 62, in 2023. For comparison, it was #4,062 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sonora in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 8 babies. In all, 1,444 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 422 babies named Sonora.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 536 US girls were named Sonora; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,223 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #3,023 | — | — |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,925 | — | — |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,784 | — | — |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,853 | — | — |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,384 | — | — |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,274 | — | — |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,150 | — | — |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,087 | — | — |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,653 | — | — |
| 2015 | 37 | #4,062 | — | — |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,772 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,527 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,096 | — | — |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,906 | — | — |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,018 | — | — |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,518 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,116 | — | — |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,908 | — | — |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,361 | — | — |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,415 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,461 | — | — |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,076 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,660 | — | — |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,990 | — | — |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,132 | — | — |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,712 | — | — |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,224 | — | — |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,994 | — | — |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,500 | — | — |
| 1995 | 20 | #5,001 | — | — |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,224 | — | — |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,498 | — | — |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,633 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,747 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,255 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,604 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,722 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,251 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,224 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,058 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,905 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,869 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,315 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,547 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,182 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,433 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,476 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,163 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,390 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,724 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,463 | — | — |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,672 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,811 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,472 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,468 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,978 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,082 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,591 | — | — |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,718 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,290 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,848 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,196 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,960 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).