Sora
Sora is given to both girls and boys: 99 girls and 63 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,959 among girls’ names and #2,250 among boys’, #2,567 among all names counting both); 2,462 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,440 Americans named Sora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sora mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sora is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sora?
#1,959 among girls’ names, 2025
Sora rose from #3,173 in 2015 to #1,959 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 29.7 to 61.6 per million.
169 babies in 2022, the peak
Sora peaked in 2022, when 169 babies were given it (92 girls, #2,102 among girls’ names). The 162 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 96% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| 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 | #2,432 |
| 2022 | 92 | #2,102 | 77 | #1,994 |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,249 | 51 | #2,583 |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,214 | 33 | #3,406 |
| 2019 | 77 | #2,350 | 39 | #3,093 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,360 | 40 | #2,985 |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,657 | 38 | #3,115 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,317 | 24 | #4,302 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #3,173 | 32 | #3,502 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,577 | 25 | #4,113 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,146 | 19 | #4,949 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,161 | 16 | #5,682 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,217 | 8 | #9,469 |
| 2010 | 69 | #2,638 | 17 | #5,437 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,358 | 14 | #6,377 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,076 | 12 | #7,116 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,119 | 12 | #7,013 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,726 | 12 | #6,842 |
| 2005 | 36 | #4,018 | 8 | #8,968 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,264 | 5 | #12,954 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,098 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,419 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,666 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,128 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,157 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,778 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,257 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,737 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 11 | #8,010 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,412 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,641 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,969 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,470 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,146 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,481 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,242 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,682 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,529 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,477 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,232 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,645 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,121 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,745 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,862 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,716 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,567 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,838 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,182 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,052 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,016 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,593 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,112 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Sora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,462 Americans recorded as Sora, 73% are girls and 27% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sora, and how old are they?
2,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,462 Americans ever recorded as Sora. The median Sora alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,930 people named Sora (1,591 women and girls, 339 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,569 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 69 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 182 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 644 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,540 |
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 Sora born?
The states with the most babies named Sora are California, Colorado and New York, with 72% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Colorado is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 34 | #1,226 | 0.9× |
| Colorado | 13 | #1,038 | 0.5× |
| New York | 8 | #1,641 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,123 | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,334 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,757 | 0.2× |
Where Sora is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sora is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1972 it was given 1.9 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 Sora 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 10,336 babies since 1880, Sora is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 162 of their 506 babies (32%), again the second 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 Sora
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 Sora and names like it
- Compare Sora and SorayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSora peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sora since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Sora.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sora alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.