Norah is a short form of Eleanor, that means “honor” or “dignity’. It is derived from the Latin word honor. Norah is a variant of Nora, which was popular in the 19th century.
Norah is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Norah isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Norah ranks 152. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 12 were named Norah. In the entire USA, approximately 26,899 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Norah. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Norah is a short form of Eleanor, that means “honor” or “dignity’. It is derived from the Latin word honor. Norah is a variant of Nora, which was popular in the 19th century.
What is honor? Honor is a concept that refers to a code of conduct or a set of values that a person or a group of people hold to be important. It is often associated with honesty, integrity, respect, and fairness.
Norah Jones (*1979)
Born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar, »Norah Jones« is a US singer-songwriter and pianist. She has received several awards for her music and has sold more than 50 million records worldwide as of 2023. She has been honoured with nine Grammy Awards and Billboard magazine named her the best female jazz artist of the decade in 2000.
Nora Ephron (1941-2012)
Ephron is best known as an author and director of romantic comedies. These include the films »Harry and Sally«, »Sleepless in Seattle«, »You've Got Mail« and »Julie & Julia«. She has received numerous awards for her work, including a British Academy Film Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award and three Writers Guild of America Awards.
Norah Morahan O'Donnell (*1974)
She has worked with a lot of mainstream media outlets throughout her career, among them being a former co-anchor of »CBS This Morning« and being Chief White House Correspondent for »CBS News«. Currently O'Donnell works as anchor of the »CBS Evening News«, as correspondent for the tv news magazine »60 Minutes«, and as host of the popular tv progamm »Person to Person«.
Norah Mary Vincent (1968-2022)
Vincent was a weekly columnist for the »Los Angeles Times« and a quarterly columnist in the politics and culture section for the national LGBT news magazine »The Advocate« among others. In 2006 she gained particular attention with her book »Self-Made Man«, in which she describes the experiences she had presenting as a man for eighteen months.
When you hear the name Norah, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Norah? Are you also called Norah? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
There is a headland and a coastal village on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia that is called »Norah Head«. Originally it is known as Bungaree Noragh Point.
»Mount Nora« is located on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
The second largest island in the Dahlak archipelago of Eritrea is called »Nora«. It is one of the three inhabited islands in the archipelago.
»Nora« is a river in the Amur Oblast, Russia. With a length of 305 kilometres, it is the second longest tributary of the Selemdzha after the Ulma.
is a densely populated, working-class suburb in the south-west of Harare, Zimbabwe.
There are a number of places around the world called »Nora«. They can be found in Sweden, Turkey and the USA among others.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Norah annualy. This means that there have been girls named Norah who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Norah have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2017 it holds its present record at #134 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Norah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Norah has never been ranked higher than #134. In 2022, she rivaled the 183 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 1,528 girls named Norah were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Norah were born, there have been 39 newborns who were given this name.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Norah occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Norah is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Norah is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 26,899 women and girls of all generations bear the name Norah – that is one in 5,732. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Utah, where one in 2,135 women and girls is called Norah, while it is particularly rare in Mississippi, where you have to ask an average of 19,060 women for their name to get Norah as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Norah is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.
If your name is Norah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Norah, you can simply say:
Nut
Orange
Rocket
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Norah
Norah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
O
R
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
N
O
R
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Norah sounds like this:
