Sonora
Sonora was given to 55 girls in 2025, #3,023 among girls’ names; 1,444 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,400 Americans named Sonora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sonora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sonora?
#3,023 among girls’ names, 2025
Sonora rose from #4,061 in 2015 to #3,023 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.7 to 34.2 per million.
62 babies in 2023, the peak
Sonora peaked in 2023, when 62 girls were given it, #2,784 among girls’ names. The 55 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #3,023 | 34.2 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,925 | 35.2 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,784 | 38.6 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,853 | 36.6 |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,383 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,274 | 29.7 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,850 | 35.2 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,149 | 30.6 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,087 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,653 | 24.3 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,061 | 20.7 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,770 | 23.0 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,525 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,094 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,905 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,017 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,516 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,113 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,907 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,360 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,410 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,456 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,071 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,654 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,985 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,127 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,707 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,221 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,991 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,495 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,996 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,219 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,493 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,766 | 23.9 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,627 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,741 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,248 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,597 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,717 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,246 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,219 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,054 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,903 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,868 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,313 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,545 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,181 | 6.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,431 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,474 | 6.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,161 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,389 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,723 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,462 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,671 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,810 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,471 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,467 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,977 | 4.0 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,080 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,590 | 3.2 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,716 | 3.9 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,288 | 3.6 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,846 | 4.7 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,194 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,958 | 6.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sonora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sonora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sonora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sonora, and how old are they?
1,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,444 Americans ever recorded as Sonora. The median Sonora alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,029 people named Sonora (1,021 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,090 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 50 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 81 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 427 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 642 |
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).
Where are babies named Sonora born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,777 | 0.7× |
| California | 5 | #3,477 | 1.0× |
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 Sonora with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sonora
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 Sonora and names like it
- Compare Sonora and VittoriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSonora peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sonora since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Sonora.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sonora alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.