Norah Girl
How popular is Norah?
#262 girl name in 2025
1,191 baby girls were named Norah in the US in 2025, making it the 262nd most popular girl name.
Norah popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #262 for girls (▼ 39 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,191 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-41% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #159 in 2015, #152 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2017 (2,156 girls) |
| Highest rank | #136 in 2017 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.9% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Norah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Nora family of names ranked #21 for girls in 2025 (#20 the year before), with 7,571 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Nora | 6,380 | 84% |
| Norah | 1,191 | 16% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Norah is most popular
Babies named Norah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- North Dakota: 3.1 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Rhode Island: 3.1 per 1,000 (39 girls)
- Vermont: 3.1 per 1,000 (15 girls)
- Maine: 2.8 per 1,000 (43 girls)
- South Dakota: 2.5 per 1,000 (35 girls)
Norah by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 125 | #423 |
| 1890s | 146 | #660 |
| 1900s | 114 | #872 |
| 1910s | 177 | #1,335 |
| 1920s | 197 | #1,643 |
| 1930s | 129 | #1,940 |
| 1940s | 206 | #1,620 |
| 1950s | 234 | #1,582 |
| 1960s | 213 | #2,249 |
| 1970s | 238 | #2,601 |
| 1980s | 327 | #2,514 |
| 1990s | 357 | #2,929 |
| 2000s | 4,459 | #343 |
| 2010s | 17,744 | #136 |
| 2020s | 9,203 | #152 |
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Questions
- Is Norah a boy or girl name?
- Norah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Norah were girls.
- How popular is the name Norah?
- 1,191 baby girls were named Norah in the US in 2025, making it the 262nd most popular girl name.
- When was Norah most popular?
- Norah peaked in 2017, when 2,156 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #136 in 2017.
- How many people are named Norah?
- 33,998 babies have been named Norah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 32,728 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Norah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Norah was most common in North Dakota, at 3.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.