Sephora
Sephora was given to 31 girls in 2025, #4,534 among girls’ names; 1,003 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sephora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sephora?
#4,534 among girls’ names, 2025
Sephora fell from #2,996 in 2015 to #4,534 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 32.5 to 19.3 per million.
59 babies in 2014, the peak
Sephora peaked in 2014, when 59 girls were given it, #2,914 among girls’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,534 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,099 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,517 | 28.0 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,277 | 20.7 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,392 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,345 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,990 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,043 | 31.7 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,428 | 26.6 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,840 | 22.6 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,996 | 32.5 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,914 | 33.0 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,450 | 26.2 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,307 | 28.4 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,055 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,946 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,176 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,259 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,866 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,784 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,088 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,766 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,831 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,338 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,774 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,033 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,685 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,168 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,768 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,317 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,286 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,533 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,456 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,926 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,472 | 3.4 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,778 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,091 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,541 | 3.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,783 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,743 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sephora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sephora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sephora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sephora, and how old are they?
An estimated 993 Americans named Sephora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 865 people named Sephora (861 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 794 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% 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).
Where are babies named Sephora born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 6 | #861 | 0.6× |
Where Sephora is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sephora is most over-represented in Florida: since 1974 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sephora with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,408 babies since 1880, Sephora is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 52 babies (60%), again the 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 Sephora
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 Sephora and names like it
- Compare Sephora and SeforaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSephora peaked in 2014.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sephora since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Sephora.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sephora alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.