Norah
Norah is ranked 223rd among girls in 2024 (1,374 births). Its best rank was 137th, in 2017.
- Rank in 2024
- #223down 22 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,3740.09% of girls
- Peak year
- 20172,156 births
- Best rank
- #137in 2017
- Since 1880
- 32,661people given the name
The story in the numbers
32,661 girls have been named Norah in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 2,156 births — 0.12% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 163 → 223).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2015, and the 2010s alone account for 54%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Norah | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 125 | |
| 1890s | 146 | |
| 1900s | 114 | |
| 1910s | 177 | |
| 1920s | 197 | |
| 1930s | 129 | |
| 1940s | 206 | |
| 1950s | 235 | |
| 1960s | 213 | |
| 1970s | 238 | |
| 1980s | 326 | |
| 1990s | 357 | |
| 2000s | 4,459 | |
| 2010s | 17,742 | |
| 2020s | 7,997 |
In 2017, its biggest year
Norah was the 137th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2017 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Norah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Arabellapeak 2014
- Evalynnpeak 2015
- Analeahpeak 2016
- Emrypeak 2017
- Rylynnpeak 2016
- Janylahpeak 2019
- Rhyleepeak 2019
- Scarlettepeak 2016
Other spellings in the data
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.