Anorah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-NOR-a
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #5,409 for girls
Anorah is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 5,409th for girls in the US (23 babies).
What does Anorah mean?
Spelling of Anora; possibly Uzbek, from anor, 'pomegranate', or a form of medieval Annora
Anora is also the title of the 2024 film that won the Oscar for Best Picture.
Meaning borrowed from Anora.
Is Anorah a girl's or a boy's name?
Anorah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 23 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Anorah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Anorah, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2024, with 3 girls.
In 2025, 35 girls in the UK were given Anorah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #934, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Anorah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 1 | #7,664 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 1 | #7,881 |
How popular is Anorah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 23 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 29% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 23 girls in the US were named Anorah, making it the 5,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. It first appears in the records in 2009.
2025 had the most girls named Anorah of any year since it first appeared, in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Anorah in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 207 girls in the US were given Anorah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,042, up from #5,409 for this spelling alone.
Anorah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,409 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,639 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,544 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,744 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,208 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,040 |
| 2016 | 21 | #5,983 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
Names like Anorah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaminah, Azeemah, Aakifah, Ammarah, Aaliyah, Nusaybah, Aafiyah, Amanah, Aaishah, Umaymah, Umamah, Afrah
Other spellings of Anorah
Names related to Anorah
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Anorah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/anorah, updated 20 October 2026.