Nora
Nationally, Nora lands at #20 for 2025, peaking as we speak. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 193,138 American bearers across the record.
What Nora carries
Nora · Latin
“honour”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
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Five printables for Nora, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Nora since 1880
Nora is at its all-time peak right now: #20 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Nora is most common
The state that gives Nora most often, per girls born there, is Vermont (2.26% in 2025); New Hampshire and Montana are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Nora
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Julian
#25 in 2025 · Latin
Lucy
#25 in 2025 · Latin
Luca
#14 in 2025 · Latin
Violet
#13 in 2025 · Latin
Luke
#33 in 2025 · Latin
Lucas
#10 in 2025 · Latin
Stella
#52 in 2025 · Latin
Claire
#68 in 2025 · Latin
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About Nora
Where does Nora rank right now?
Nationally, Nora lands at #20 for 2025, peaking as we speak. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Nora?
The reference we cite records “honour”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Nora?
The recipe puts Julian first, then Luca, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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