Meaning not yet researched.
Sora: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 99 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,864 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,864 in 2023; #1,959 in 2025. About 61% of babies named Sora in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,959 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,864.
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Sora: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 99 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,864 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 108 (2023).
In 2025, 99 US girls were named Sora, making it the 1,959th most common girls’ name of the year, up 20 places from #1,979 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 100 girls named Sora in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,864, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 108. For comparison, it was #3,173 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 63 US boys were named Sora, making it the 2,250th most common boys’ name of the year, up 60 places from #2,310 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 62 boys named Sora in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,995, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 77. For comparison, it was #3,503 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sora in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 6 babies. In all, 2,462 US babies have been given the name, 73% of them girls and 27% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 906 babies named Sora.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 834 US girls were named Sora; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,235 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sora ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #1,038 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zora (10,248 babies since 1880) and Soraya (6,811 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Surah and Surai are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Surah (278), Surai (98).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sora in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 5 | #1,038 | — |
| California | 21 | #1,226 | #2,694 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,334 | #846 |
| New York | 8 | #1,641 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,757 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #2,123 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99 | #1,959 | 63 | #2,250 |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,979 | 62 | #2,310 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,864 | 56 | #2,433 |
| 2022 | 92 | #2,102 | 77 | #1,995 |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,249 | 51 | #2,584 |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,214 | 33 | #3,408 |
| 2019 | 77 | #2,350 | 39 | #3,096 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,360 | 40 | #2,987 |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,657 | 38 | #3,116 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,317 | 24 | #4,303 |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,173 | 32 | #3,503 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,579 | 25 | #4,116 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,148 | 19 | #4,952 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,162 | 16 | #5,688 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,218 | 8 | #9,476 |
| 2010 | 69 | #2,638 | 17 | #5,440 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,359 | 14 | #6,381 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,077 | 12 | #7,121 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,120 | 12 | #7,017 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,727 | 12 | #6,847 |
| 2005 | 36 | #4,022 | 8 | #8,975 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,268 | 5 | #12,961 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,102 | — | — |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,423 | — | — |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,671 | — | — |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,133 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,164 | — | — |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,781 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,262 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,742 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #8,015 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,418 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,647 | — | — |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,975 | — | — |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,476 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,152 | — | — |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,487 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,247 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,687 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,532 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,480 | — | — |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,233 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,647 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,123 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,747 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,863 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,717 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,569 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,840 | — | — |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,184 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,054 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,018 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,595 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,114 | — | — |
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).