Meaning not yet researched.
Nora: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6,380 in 2025. Its best rank was #20 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.9% of babies named Nora in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#20 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Nora: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6,380 girls in 2025. Peak: #20 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 6,380 (2025).
In 2025, 6,380 US girls were named Nora, making it the 20th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2 places from #22 in 2024. That is 232 more than the 6,148 girls named Nora in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #20, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 6,380. For comparison, it was #41 in 2015 and #225 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nora in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 476 babies with the name. In all, 193,922 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 44,088 babies named Nora.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 60,000 US girls were named Nora; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 6,380. In 2025 that was about 1 in 252 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nora ranked highest in Vermont in 2025, at #4 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 50 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Ora (44,894 babies since 1880), Norah (33,998 babies since 1880), Noura (1,219 babies since 1880) and Nura (904 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Noora, Dinora and Noraa are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Nonie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Italian, Latvian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Noora (923), Dinora (813), Noraa (233), Noorah (148), Nurah (146), Nourah (81), Norrah (36), Norra (25), Nuray (17).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 22 | #4 | #19 |
| Montana | 37 | #5 | #32 |
| Minnesota | 194 | #5 | #5 |
| Wisconsin | 185 | #7 | #9 |
| Connecticut | 99 | #8 | #27 |
| Massachusetts | 223 | #8 | #17 |
| New Hampshire | 51 | #8 | #21 |
| South Dakota | 31 | #9 | #9 |
| Ohio | 301 | #10 | #21 |
| Pennsylvania | 311 | #10 | #25 |
| Colorado | 159 | #11 | #40 |
| Iowa | 88 | #12 | #12 |
| Missouri | 164 | #12 | #12 |
| Michigan | 230 | #13 | #30 |
| Rhode Island | 28 | #13 | #13 |
| Maine | 33 | #14 | #19 |
| Illinois | 260 | #14 | #23 |
| North Dakota | 26 | #15 | #10 |
| Oregon | 84 | #15 | #32 |
| Utah | 114 | #15 | #27 |
| Indiana | 161 | #16 | #17 |
| Nebraska | 51 | #16 | #18 |
| New Jersey | 192 | #20 | #88 |
| Kansas | 72 | #20 | #22 |
| Virginia | 184 | #20 | #45 |
| Kentucky | 98 | #21 | #42 |
| Washington | 156 | #21 | #31 |
| North Carolina | 214 | #22 | #68 |
| Idaho | 45 | #22 | #44 |
| New York | 359 | #23 | #60 |
| District of Columbia | 17 | #25 | #29 |
| Alaska | 17 | #25 | #85 |
| Delaware | 18 | #26 | #55 |
| Tennessee | 150 | #28 | #39 |
| Maryland | 97 | #28 | #40 |
| Louisiana | 73 | #32 | #114 |
| South Carolina | 86 | #32 | #45 |
| Georgia | 163 | #34 | #71 |
| Oklahoma | 64 | #37 | #66 |
| West Virginia | 28 | #38 | #51 |
| Alabama | 73 | #38 | #63 |
| Mississippi | 38 | #39 | #77 |
| Wyoming | 8 | #39 | #43 |
| Arkansas | 47 | #39 | #47 |
| Arizona | 109 | #40 | #84 |
| California | 488 | #50 | #125 |
| Florida | 261 | #52 | #130 |
| Texas | 424 | #56 | #133 |
| Nevada | 26 | #81 | #107 |
| Hawaii | 9 | #90 | #131 |
| New Mexico | 12 | #129 | #145 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6,380 | #20 | 6 | #11,617 |
| 2024 | 6,148 | #22 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6,027 | #24 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6,148 | #28 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6,281 | #27 | — | — |
| 2020 | 5,583 | #30 | 6 | #11,595 |
| 2019 | 5,936 | #29 | — | — |
| 2018 | 5,837 | #30 | 7 | #10,431 |
| 2017 | 6,067 | #29 | — | — |
| 2016 | 5,593 | #36 | — | — |
| 2015 | 5,330 | #41 | — | — |
| 2014 | 4,741 | #49 | 5 | #13,476 |
| 2013 | 3,508 | #83 | — | — |
| 2012 | 2,890 | #108 | — | — |
| 2011 | 2,235 | #137 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,939 | #159 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,670 | #198 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,560 | #216 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,474 | #242 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,385 | #245 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,197 | #276 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,043 | #306 | — | — |
| 2003 | 830 | #367 | 5 | #12,208 |
| 2002 | 601 | #471 | — | — |
| 2001 | 622 | #448 | — | — |
| 2000 | 540 | #502 | — | — |
| 1999 | 584 | #455 | — | — |
| 1998 | 540 | #477 | — | — |
| 1997 | 563 | #451 | — | — |
| 1996 | 557 | #450 | — | — |
| 1995 | 545 | #463 | 5 | #9,880 |
| 1994 | 530 | #474 | — | — |
| 1993 | 526 | #479 | — | — |
| 1992 | 524 | #472 | — | — |
| 1991 | 575 | #444 | — | — |
| 1990 | 588 | #431 | 5 | #9,099 |
| 1989 | 596 | #415 | 10 | #5,073 |
| 1988 | 606 | #397 | — | — |
| 1987 | 538 | #414 | 8 | #5,307 |
| 1986 | 485 | #446 | 5 | #7,501 |
| 1985 | 541 | #412 | 6 | #6,293 |
| 1984 | 559 | #391 | — | — |
| 1983 | 521 | #415 | 8 | #4,787 |
| 1982 | 564 | #407 | — | — |
| 1981 | 551 | #405 | 6 | #6,025 |
| 1980 | 571 | #400 | 9 | #4,397 |
| 1979 | 536 | #404 | — | — |
| 1978 | 584 | #366 | — | — |
| 1977 | 517 | #403 | — | — |
| 1976 | 517 | #396 | — | — |
| 1975 | 552 | #377 | — | — |
| 1974 | 587 | #367 | — | — |
| 1973 | 573 | #369 | — | — |
| 1972 | 604 | #364 | — | — |
| 1971 | 624 | #375 | 5 | #5,438 |
| 1970 | 676 | #366 | — | — |
| 1969 | 709 | #336 | — | — |
| 1968 | 696 | #329 | 7 | #3,586 |
| 1967 | 727 | #325 | 5 | #4,380 |
| 1966 | 850 | #299 | 5 | #4,359 |
| 1965 | 881 | #302 | 8 | #3,171 |
| 1964 | 1,050 | #280 | 9 | #2,996 |
| 1963 | 1,067 | #278 | 7 | #3,559 |
| 1962 | 1,076 | #274 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,120 | #272 | 9 | #3,040 |
| 1960 | 1,345 | #238 | 11 | #2,644 |
| 1959 | 1,276 | #241 | 9 | #2,979 |
| 1958 | 1,178 | #253 | 6 | #3,813 |
| 1957 | 1,162 | #251 | 6 | #3,851 |
| 1956 | 1,170 | #244 | 8 | #3,125 |
| 1955 | 1,047 | #255 | 6 | #3,772 |
| 1954 | 1,161 | #237 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,148 | #238 | 10 | #2,665 |
| 1952 | 1,122 | #234 | 8 | #3,034 |
| 1951 | 1,160 | #223 | 10 | #2,612 |
| 1950 | 1,116 | #225 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,198 | #218 | 8 | #2,952 |
| 1948 | 1,086 | #225 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,096 | #225 | 12 | #2,328 |
| 1946 | 970 | #229 | 5 | #3,872 |
| 1945 | 833 | #228 | 12 | #2,098 |
| 1944 | 841 | #225 | — | — |
| 1943 | 856 | #230 | 8 | #2,895 |
| 1942 | 837 | #228 | 12 | #2,229 |
| 1941 | 845 | #209 | 11 | #2,294 |
| 1940 | 843 | #209 | 7 | #3,050 |
| 1939 | 859 | #204 | 5 | #3,827 |
| 1938 | 857 | #203 | 12 | #2,151 |
| 1937 | 842 | #202 | 14 | #1,968 |
| 1936 | 791 | #210 | 10 | #2,407 |
| 1935 | 910 | #192 | 12 | #2,212 |
| 1934 | 888 | #200 | 13 | #2,090 |
| 1933 | 891 | #193 | 12 | #2,185 |
| 1932 | 969 | #189 | 14 | #2,063 |
| 1931 | 904 | #202 | 12 | #2,295 |
| 1930 | 1,015 | #190 | 11 | #2,563 |
| 1929 | 1,016 | #193 | 15 | #2,072 |
| 1928 | 1,082 | #191 | 9 | #3,002 |
| 1927 | 1,078 | #189 | 14 | #2,266 |
| 1926 | 1,203 | #176 | 11 | #2,677 |
| 1925 | 1,317 | #171 | 9 | #3,073 |
| 1924 | 1,335 | #172 | 12 | #2,581 |
| 1923 | 1,221 | #180 | 10 | #2,888 |
| 1922 | 1,219 | #180 | 16 | #2,116 |
| 1921 | 1,350 | #167 | 8 | #3,412 |
| 1920 | 1,477 | #157 | 17 | #2,026 |
| 1919 | 1,372 | #161 | 12 | #2,468 |
| 1918 | 1,382 | #161 | 8 | #3,292 |
| 1917 | 1,360 | #154 | 16 | #1,959 |
| 1916 | 1,314 | #154 | 12 | #2,361 |
| 1915 | 1,293 | #144 | 10 | #2,567 |
| 1914 | 1,038 | #143 | 12 | #1,938 |
| 1913 | 890 | #135 | 8 | #2,216 |
| 1912 | 882 | #130 | 13 | #1,404 |
| 1911 | 779 | #116 | 9 | #1,259 |
| 1910 | 753 | #111 | 10 | #1,097 |
| 1909 | 670 | #107 | 8 | #1,135 |
| 1908 | 648 | #110 | — | — |
| 1907 | 676 | #104 | 7 | #1,174 |
| 1906 | 644 | #101 | 10 | #836 |
| 1905 | 742 | #92 | 11 | #777 |
| 1904 | 698 | #93 | 5 | #1,346 |
| 1903 | 724 | #87 | 6 | #1,093 |
| 1902 | 724 | #86 | 8 | #904 |
| 1901 | 727 | #81 | — | — |
| 1900 | 919 | #83 | 9 | #951 |
| 1899 | 709 | #80 | — | — |
| 1898 | 868 | #74 | 5 | #1,252 |
| 1897 | 812 | #71 | 7 | #911 |
| 1896 | 844 | #71 | — | — |
| 1895 | 846 | #70 | 6 | #1,045 |
| 1894 | 854 | #68 | 7 | #926 |
| 1893 | 825 | #67 | 6 | #997 |
| 1892 | 899 | #63 | 7 | #926 |
| 1891 | 801 | #63 | — | — |
| 1890 | 835 | #63 | 5 | #1,111 |
| 1889 | 831 | #60 | — | — |
| 1888 | 832 | #61 | 7 | #890 |
| 1887 | 735 | #56 | 8 | #726 |
| 1886 | 708 | #56 | 8 | #743 |
| 1885 | 670 | #56 | 8 | #746 |
| 1884 | 648 | #56 | — | — |
| 1883 | 589 | #55 | — | — |
| 1882 | 539 | #58 | — | — |
| 1881 | 498 | #55 | — | — |
| 1880 | 471 | #56 | 5 | #1,022 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).