Anorah
#5,423 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Anorah has been given to 258 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #5,423 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 23 recorded.
Babies named Anorah, 2025
1 in 144,000
Anorah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Anorah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 144,000
- 23 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 69,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,423
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 99,910 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Anorah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anorah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Anorahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Anorah was born before 2018 — so the typical Anorah is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 54.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 258
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 54.7% of all recorded uses (141).
Is Anorah 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
- +1,238
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,824
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,232
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.53×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (23)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.9% average annual change
Spellings of Anorah
Anorah is not the most common spelling — Nora is, with 56.7% against Anorah's 0.08%.
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 Anorah is used
Across 1910–2025, Anorah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,004,633 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
- 2North Carolina1 in —
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. Anorah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Anorah around the world
Where Anorah 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 & Wales2024–2025#5,927in 2025
- Canada2019–2019#3,370in 2019
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.
Anorah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Anorah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Anorah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.