Sorah
Sorah was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 200 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sorah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sorah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,300, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 2003, the peak
Sorah peaked in 2003, when 14 girls were given it, #7,937 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #13,300 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,951 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,463 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,818 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,690 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,766 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,022 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,711 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,028 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,221 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 8 | #13,772 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,678 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,490 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,937 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,152 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,769 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,571 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,960 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,487 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,630 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,638 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,571 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,910 | 5.9 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,667 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,305 | 5.1 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,719 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,057 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sorah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sorah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sorah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sorah, and how old are they?
An estimated 197 Americans named Sorah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 239 people named Sorah (236 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 174 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Sorah?
Sorah is a less common spelling of Sora: SSA has recorded 200 Sorah and 2,462 Sora since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 10,435 babies since 1880, Sorah is the sixth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 533 babies recorded by SSA was a Sorah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Sorah
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 Sorah and names like it
- Compare Sorah and SoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSorah peaked in 2003.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sorah since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Sorah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sorah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.