Anora
Anora was given to 144 girls in 2025, #1,485 among girls’ names; 1,204 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Anora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anora?
#1,485 among girls’ names, 2025
Anora rose from #3,062 in 2015 to #1,485 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 30.8 to 89.6 per million.
144 babies in 2025, the peak
Anora peaked in 2025, when 144 girls were given it, #1,485 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 77 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | #1,485 | 89.6 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,367 | 47.5 |
| 2023 | 82 | #2,258 | 51.1 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,898 | 35.4 |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,086 | 55.5 |
| 2020 | 80 | #2,244 | 49.5 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,511 | 41.7 |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,146 | 51.7 |
| 2017 | 79 | #2,323 | 45.8 |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,389 | 44.0 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #3,062 | 30.8 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,232 | 28.0 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,647 | 23.9 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,789 | 23.3 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,922 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 28 | #4,990 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,909 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,574 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,841 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,354 | 6.3 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,345 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,526 | 3.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,882 | 3.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,848 | 3.3 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,001 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anora, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,204 Americans ever recorded as Anora. The median Anora alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 784 people named Anora (779 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 683 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 192 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 988 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 6,576 babies since 1880, Anora is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 144 of their 699 babies (21%), the second most given that year.
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 Anora
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 Anora and names like it
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Anora.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Anora alive today were born 2013-2025.
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