Annora
Annora was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,720 among girls’ names; 791 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Annora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Annora?
#3,720 among girls’ names, 2025
Annora rose from #3,924 in 2015 to #3,720 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 21.3 to 24.9 per million.
100 babies in 2017, the peak
Annora peaked in 2017, when 100 girls were given it, #1,977 among girls’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,720 | 24.9 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,704 | 25.3 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,280 | 30.5 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,118 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,808 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,924 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,178 | 29.8 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,909 | 33.5 |
| 2017 | 100 | #1,977 | 57.9 |
| 2016 | 86 | #2,225 | 48.5 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,924 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,467 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,150 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,610 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,242 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,199 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,092 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,540 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,728 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,672 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,939 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,862 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,013 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,315 | 3.9 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,385 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,273 | 4.6 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,831 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,853 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Annora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Annora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Annora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Annora, and how old are they?
An estimated 770 Americans named Annora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 588 people named Annora (588 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 543 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,508 babies since 1880, Annora is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 622 babies (6.4%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Annora
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Annora and names like it
- Compare Annora and AinaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Annora since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Annora.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Annora alive today were born 2013-2025.
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