Entry № 9924 · Japanese origin

Sora Sora — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SO-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Sky"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "sky".

Sora is a Japanese name written 空 — meaning "sky" or "emptiness." In Buddhist thought, the character also carries the philosophical meaning of śūnyatā, the emptiness or openness that is the nature of all phenomena.

Sora is widely used in Japan for both girls and boys. Two soft syllables, a sky's worth of meaning.

Sky. The Japanese word, given as a name.

The name in its native script.

Transliteration
Sora
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɔː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sora stands.

Sora does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Soras before her.

Real people
Sora Aoi
Japanese former actress.
born 1983
In fiction
Sora
Protagonist of the video game series Kingdom Hearts.
2002 game

Names connected to Sora.

The number behind Sora.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sora reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.