Sora
#1,942 for girls in 2025, 99 births · #2,230 for boys in 2025, 63 births
Given to girls 73.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 108 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,799since 1972
Sora over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,942 | 99 | #2,230 | 63 |
| 2024 | #1,966 | 100 | #2,288 | 62 |
| 2023 | #1,850 | 108 | #2,416 | 56 |
| 2022 | #2,087 | 92 | #1,981 | 77 |
| 2021 | #2,233 | 83 | #2,552 | 51 |
| 2020 | #2,196 | 82 | #3,344 | 33 |
| 2019 | #2,331 | 77 | #3,052 | 39 |
| 2018 | #2,334 | 78 | #2,943 | 40 |
| 2017 | #2,635 | 66 | #3,071 | 38 |
| 2016 | #3,280 | 49 | #4,199 | 24 |
| 2015 | #3,129 | 53 | #3,431 | 32 |
| 2014 | #2,560 | 69 | #4,014 | 25 |
| 2013 | #4,076 | 36 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #3,134 | 53 | #5,482 | 16 |
| 2011 | #3,173 | 52 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #2,614 | 69 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #4,006 | 39 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #4,050 | 38 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #3,669 | 42 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #3,942 | 36 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #4,172 | 33 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #4,034 | 33 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,254 | 22 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,564 | 26 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,981 | 23 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | — | |
| 1998 | #4,636 | 23 | — | |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,531 | 17 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | — | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,329 | 23 | — | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 | — | |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | — | |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 | — | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | — | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sora! It came in at #7,292, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1974, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sora
- 24 spots since 2024 (#1,966 → #1,942)
- 254 spots since 2020 (#2,196 → #1,942)
- 1,187 spots since 2015 (#3,129 → #1,942)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2023 at #1,850 (108 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,857 girls born in 2023 were named Sora (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,235 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 33.5% of all girls named Sora (602) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 61 | #5,427 (1979) | #7,138 |
| 1980s | 98 | #5,544 (1980) | #6,874 |
| 1990s | 147 | #4,329 (1991) | #6,669 |
| 2000s | 327 | #3,669 (2006) | #4,294 |
| 2010s | 602 | #2,331 (2019) | #2,927 |
| 2020s | 564 | #1,850 (2023) | #2,046 |
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.
Sora in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 21,809 of them was named Sora, which outranked 87.1% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,302Yuri79
- #2,302Zari79
- #2,302Zelie79
- #2,334Sora78
- #2,334Adella78
- #2,334Alonna78
- #2,334Amiracle78
- #2,361Aaleyah77
- #2,361Analeigh77
- #2,361Brigitte77
Tied with 26 names at #2,334; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 45,404 of them was named Sora, which outranked 79.2% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,893Wynston41
- #2,893Yovani41
- #2,893Zian41
- #2,943Sora40
- #2,943Aadi40
- #2,943Adil40
- #2,943Akari40
- #2,994Alekzander39
- #2,994Alexandros39
- #2,994Amaru39
Tied with 50 names at #2,943; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.