Meaning not yet researched.
Norah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,191 in 2025. Its best rank was #137 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #137 in 2017; #262 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Norah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#262 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #137.
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Norah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,191 girls in 2025. Peak: #137 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 2,156 (2017).
In 2025, 1,191 US girls were named Norah, making it the 262nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 39 places from #223 in 2024. That is 193 fewer than the 1,384 girls named Norah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #137, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,156. For comparison, it was #159 in 2015 and #2,105 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Norah in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 9 babies with the name. In all, 33,998 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 17,744 babies named Norah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 17,373 US girls were named Norah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 2,156. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,350 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Norah ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #140 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nora (193,922 babies since 1880), Noura (1,219 babies since 1880) and Nura (904 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dinorah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dinorah (569).
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.
No nicknames listed for Norah in the open dataset we use.
Norah is listed as a nickname for Honora.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 7 | #140 | #154 |
| North Dakota | 7 | #153 | #58 |
| Massachusetts | 35 | #161 | #123 |
| Kentucky | 28 | #162 | #185 |
| New Hampshire | 8 | #164 | #55 |
| Wisconsin | 31 | #176 | #93 |
| Oregon | 21 | #178 | #75 |
| Utah | 25 | #191 | #61 |
| Tennessee | 40 | #193 | #149 |
| Washington | 38 | #194 | #103 |
| Maine | 6 | #199 | #82 |
| Oklahoma | 20 | #203 | #143 |
| Minnesota | 27 | #208 | #83 |
| Illinois | 48 | #209 | #172 |
| Indiana | 33 | #216 | #89 |
| Colorado | 29 | #220 | #155 |
| Virginia | 35 | #233 | #137 |
| Pennsylvania | 48 | #239 | #142 |
| Maryland | 22 | #239 | #177 |
| Kansas | 13 | #250 | #78 |
| Iowa | 14 | #256 | #58 |
| Ohio | 44 | #257 | #117 |
| Missouri | 24 | #262 | #99 |
| Michigan | 35 | #267 | #117 |
| Idaho | 9 | #270 | #131 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #270 | #105 |
| New Jersey | 30 | #282 | #323 |
| South Carolina | 18 | #285 | #156 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #287 | #81 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #288 | #364 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #291 | #199 |
| California | 111 | #295 | #349 |
| North Carolina | 36 | #308 | #156 |
| Texas | 107 | #320 | #295 |
| Arizona | 22 | #327 | #257 |
| Connecticut | 9 | #344 | #122 |
| Georgia | 32 | #346 | #157 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #355 | #154 |
| New York | 47 | #365 | #225 |
| Alabama | 13 | #386 | #141 |
| Florida | 46 | #414 | #221 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,191 | #262 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,384 | #223 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,488 | #201 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,539 | #192 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,791 | #160 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,810 | #152 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,975 | #144 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2,013 | #140 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2,156 | #137 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2,026 | #154 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2,032 | #159 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2,007 | #163 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,725 | #188 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,502 | #210 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,217 | #264 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,091 | #298 | — | — |
| 2009 | 959 | #343 | — | — |
| 2008 | 666 | #476 | — | — |
| 2007 | 689 | #468 | — | — |
| 2006 | 591 | #516 | — | — |
| 2005 | 558 | #524 | — | — |
| 2004 | 476 | #591 | 6 | #10,942 |
| 2003 | 303 | #818 | — | — |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,861 | — | — |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,627 | — | — |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,035 | — | — |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,056 | — | — |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,477 | — | — |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,284 | — | — |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,748 | — | — |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,588 | — | — |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,269 | — | — |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,974 | — | — |
| 1990 | 38 | #3,006 | — | — |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,703 | — | — |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,779 | — | — |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,387 | — | — |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,109 | — | — |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,215 | — | — |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,555 | — | — |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,835 | — | — |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,232 | — | — |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,641 | — | — |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,709 | — | — |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,353 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,716 | — | — |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,064 | — | — |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,887 | — | — |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,027 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,610 | — | — |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,825 | — | — |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,915 | — | — |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,269 | — | — |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,759 | — | — |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,914 | — | — |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,896 | — | — |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,800 | — | — |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,469 | — | — |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,513 | — | — |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,070 | — | — |
| 1958 | 35 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,541 | — | — |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,262 | 6 | #3,773 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,772 | 5 | #4,197 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,763 | 6 | #3,626 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,105 | 5 | #4,048 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,796 | 5 | #4,069 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,110 | 7 | #3,226 |
| 1947 | 24 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,075 | 5 | #3,873 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,366 | — | — |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,059 | 5 | #3,902 |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,796 | 5 | #3,861 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,079 | 5 | #3,802 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,542 | 5 | #3,828 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,685 | — | — |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,624 | — | — |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,151 | 6 | #3,566 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,247 | 10 | #2,494 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,459 | 8 | #3,023 |
| 1931 | 17 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,523 | — | — |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1926 | 11 | #3,000 | 5 | #4,639 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,835 | 8 | #3,322 |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,670 | 6 | #4,207 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,141 | 9 | #3,105 |
| 1922 | 20 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,598 | 5 | #4,788 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,688 | 7 | #3,644 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1902 | 16 | #897 | — | — |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1900 | 18 | #911 | — | — |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1897 | 22 | #672 | — | — |
| 1896 | 18 | #781 | — | — |
| 1895 | 18 | #761 | — | — |
| 1894 | 13 | #891 | — | — |
| 1893 | 16 | #757 | — | — |
| 1892 | 11 | #948 | — | — |
| 1891 | 16 | #688 | — | — |
| 1890 | 11 | #861 | — | — |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1888 | 15 | #682 | — | — |
| 1887 | 9 | #834 | — | — |
| 1886 | 12 | #685 | — | — |
| 1885 | 15 | #569 | — | — |
| 1884 | 12 | #633 | — | — |
| 1883 | 20 | #432 | — | — |
| 1882 | 13 | #523 | — | — |
| 1881 | 13 | #485 | — | — |
| 1880 | 9 | #618 | — | — |
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).