Sanora
#8,264 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sanora has been given to 375 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #8,264 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Sanora, 2025
1 in 255,000
Sanora 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sanora?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,264
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sanora 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sanora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sanoras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sanora was born before 1983 — so the typical Sanora is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 18.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 38.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 359
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 18.4% of all recorded uses (69).
Is Sanora 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
- −2,995
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +8,834
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +7,832
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.17×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 52.0%
- Peak was 2024 (25)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.8% average annual change
Spellings of Sanora
Sanora is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 49.5% against Sanora's 0.02%.
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 Sanora is used
Across 1910–2025, Sanora was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 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. Sanora has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sanora around the world
Where Sanora 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.
- South Australia1965–1965#674in 1965
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sanora by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sanora
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sanora
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.