Nora

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Nora is ranked 22nd among girls in 2024 (6,128 births). Its best rank was 22nd, in 2024.

Rank in 2024: #22up 2 from 2023
Births in 2024: 6,1280.38% of girls
Peak year: 20216,276 births
Best rank: #22in 2024
Since 1880: 186,719people given the name

Babies named Nora, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

186,719 girls have been named Nora in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 6,276 births — 0.38% of all girls recorded that year.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1985, and the 2010s alone account for 24%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 38 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Nora
1880s	6,521
1890s	8,293
1900s	7,172
1910s	11,063
1920s	12,298
1930s	8,926
1940s	9,405
1950s	11,540
1960s	9,521
1970s	5,771
1980s	5,532
1990s	5,532
2000s	10,920
2010s	44,074
2020s	30,151

In 2021, its biggest year

Nora was the 27th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2021 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Ava. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Nora

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Norah32,661 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.