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How popular is “Sora” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sora” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sora” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sora” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sora” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sora” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sora” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sora” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1972 6 0.000001909 6 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%
1977 11 0.000003463 11 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 12 0.000003607 12 100%
1980 12 0.000003484 12 100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 100%
1984 11 0.000003153 11 100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 100%
1986 11 0.000003092 11 100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 100%
1991 23 0.000005905 23 100%
1992 16 0.000004165 16 100%
1993 17 0.000004509 17 100%
1994 8 0.000002152 8 100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 100%
1997 11 0.000003034 11 100%
1998 23 0.000006253 23 100%
1999 12 0.000003249 12 100%
2000 23 0.000006085 23 100%
2001 26 0.000006946 26 100%
2002 22 0.000005885 22 100%
2003 33 0.000008679 33 100%
2004 38 0.000009945 33 5 74%
2005 44 0.000011444 36 8 64%
2006 54 0.000013649 42 12 56%
2007 50 0.000012507 38 12 52%
2008 51 0.000012975 39 12 53%
2009 49 0.000012827 35 14 43%
2010 86 0.00002327 69 17 60%
2011 60 0.000016403 52 8 73%
2012 68 0.000018593 52 16 53%
2013 55 0.000015086 36 19 31%
2014 94 0.000025362 69 25 47%
2015 85 0.000022967 53 32 25%
2016 73 0.000019898 49 24 34%
2017 104 0.000029081 66 38 27%
2018 118 0.000033562 78 40 32%
2019 116 0.00003342 77 39 33%
2020 115 0.000034425 82 33 43%
2021 134 0.000039552 83 51 24%
2022 169 0.000049954 92 77 9%
2023 164 0.000049529 108 56 32%
2024 162 0.000048671 100 62 23%

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