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“Honor” — Latin via Honora origin
Girl's name · #20 in the US (2025) · Comeback
Nora was #55 in 1881, slipped to #502 by 2000, and reached #20 in 2025 — its highest rank ever. Roughly 193,000 girls have been named Nora since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records. Together with its spelling variant Norah (#262), Nora would rank around #13 with about 7,600 births last year — the newborns split about 84/16 between Nora and Norah.
Around the world: #3 in Netherlands (2025) · #3 in Norway (2025) · #4 in Denmark (2025) · #9 in Switzerland (2024) · #9 in Estonia (2024).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 1,594 notable people named Nora:
Medical professionals appear 2.01× more often than among typical names — e.g. Nora Volkow, American physician.
Similar names: Lucy · Nova · Cora · Violet · Aurora · Stella
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