# Sora (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sora/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Saora, Saura, Savara, Sabara |
| US babies named this | 2,462 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 663 / 1,799 (73% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 108, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 52 | 3,218 |
| 2012 | 53 | 3,162 |
| 2013 | 36 | 4,148 |
| 2014 | 69 | 2,579 |
| 2015 | 53 | 3,173 |
| 2016 | 49 | 3,317 |
| 2017 | 66 | 2,657 |
| 2018 | 78 | 2,360 |
| 2019 | 77 | 2,350 |
| 2020 | 82 | 2,214 |
| 2021 | 83 | 2,249 |
| 2022 | 92 | 2,102 |
| 2023 | 108 | 1,864 |
| 2024 | 100 | 1,979 |
| 2025 | 99 | 1,959 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 9,476 |
| 2012 | 16 | 5,688 |
| 2013 | 19 | 4,952 |
| 2014 | 25 | 4,116 |
| 2015 | 32 | 3,503 |
| 2016 | 24 | 4,303 |
| 2017 | 38 | 3,116 |
| 2018 | 40 | 2,987 |
| 2019 | 39 | 3,096 |
| 2020 | 33 | 3,408 |
| 2021 | 51 | 2,584 |
| 2022 | 77 | 1,995 |
| 2023 | 56 | 2,433 |
| 2024 | 62 | 2,310 |
| 2025 | 63 | 2,250 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 3 | 3,900 |
| 2003 | 3 | 4,373 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2011 | 6 | 3,549 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,945 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2021 | 7 | 3,192 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4,192 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,705 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,256 |

## People named Sora

- Sora Aoi, former Japanese AV idol (born 1981)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.