Sonora
#2,998 for girls in 2025, 55 births
- Peak · girls
- 1992 · 44 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,444since 1924
Sonora over time
Rank among girls' names. Sonora has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,998 | 55 |
| 2024 | #2,889 | 57 |
| 2023 | #2,757 | 62 |
| 2022 | #2,821 | 60 |
| 2021 | #3,339 | 47 |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 |
| 2019 | #2,814 | 59 |
| 2018 | #3,107 | 52 |
| 2017 | #3,053 | 53 |
| 2016 | #3,588 | 43 |
| 2015 | #3,989 | 37 |
| 2014 | #3,719 | 41 |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 |
| 2011 | #3,843 | 39 |
| 2010 | #3,961 | 38 |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 |
| 2007 | #3,848 | 41 |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 |
| 2003 | #4,943 | 25 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 |
| 2000 | #4,981 | 23 |
| 1999 | #4,576 | 24 |
| 1998 | #4,142 | 27 |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 |
| 1995 | #4,846 | 20 |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 |
| 1993 | #3,422 | 32 |
| 1992 | #2,733 | 44 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 |
| 1964 | #3,515 | 14 |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 |
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 |
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| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 |
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| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 |
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| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
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| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #3,665 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sonora! It came in at #3,665, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1925–1946, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sonora
- 109 spots since 2024 (#2,889 → #2,998)
- 223 spots since 2020 (#3,221 → #2,998)
- 991 spots since 2015 (#3,989 → #2,998)
- Debuted 1924
- Peaked 1992 at #2,733 (44 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 25,880 girls born in 2023 were named Sonora (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,223 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,733 in 1992, was only 1 in 41,908 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.2% of all girls named Sonora (422) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 13 | #3,665 (1924) | #4,118 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,255 (1937) | #4,255 |
| 1940s | 12 | #4,345 (1947) | #4,518 |
| 1950s | 21 | #4,625 (1959) | #4,773 |
| 1960s | 65 | #3,515 (1964) | #5,078 |
| 1970s | 51 | #5,136 (1971) | #6,395 |
| 1980s | 37 | #9,144 (1984) | #10,634 |
| 1990s | 241 | #2,733 (1992) | #4,982 |
| 2000s | 248 | #3,848 (2007) | #5,305 |
| 2010s | 422 | #2,814 (2019) | #3,745 |
| 2020s | 329 | #2,757 (2023) | #3,004 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sonora in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 27,336 of them was named Sonora, which outranked 84.1% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,792Tanya61
- #2,792Taylynn61
- #2,792Timber61
- #2,821Sonora60
- #2,821Aaira60
- #2,821Adalyne60
- #2,821Alize60
- #2,856Aiko59
- #2,856Allisson59
- #2,856Alyse59
Tied with 34 names at #2,821; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.