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Annora

#3,720 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Honora

Annora has been given to 791 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #3,720 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 100 recorded.

Babies named Annora, 2025

1 in 82,900

Annora over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Annora: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Honora

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Annora means

Annora is a variant of Honora.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Annora → Honora → Honorius. The family’s meaning is “conferring honour”, recorded in English with the source elements honōrus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Honora.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 791 girls were recorded with the name Annora between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 100 in 2017; its best national rank was #1,977 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,924 in 2020 to #3,720 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,924 in 2015 to #3,720 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Annora?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 40,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,720
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Annora sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Annora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Annoras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Annora was born before 2017 — so the typical Annora is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
771
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Choose a decade

2010s — 56.0% of all recorded uses (443).

Is Annora rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−16
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+204
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+204
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 2017 (100)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,977
2017

Spellings of Annora

Annora is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 68.0% against Annora's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Annora is used

Across 2016–2025, Annora was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 63,302 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

12 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Virginia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 50,000
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Annora around the world

Where Annora ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Annora by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,720
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 204
Best rank ever
#1,977
2017
Peak year
2017
100 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
791
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Annora

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AnnekaAnnisaAnnicaAnnakaAnnalyAnnaliAnneliAnnaisAnnaleaAnniaAnniyahAnnayaAnnahiAnnsleyAnnyaAnniahAnnelleAnnelAnnsleeAnnellaAnnalieDinoraMedoraAnnalyn

Sibling names for Annora

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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