# Norah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/norah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 33,998 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 129 / 33,869 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,208, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,217 | 264 |
| 2012 | 1,502 | 210 |
| 2013 | 1,725 | 188 |
| 2014 | 2,007 | 163 |
| 2015 | 2,032 | 159 |
| 2016 | 2,026 | 154 |
| 2017 | 2,156 | 137 |
| 2018 | 2,013 | 140 |
| 2019 | 1,975 | 144 |
| 2020 | 1,810 | 152 |
| 2021 | 1,791 | 160 |
| 2022 | 1,539 | 192 |
| 2023 | 1,488 | 201 |
| 2024 | 1,384 | 223 |
| 2025 | 1,191 | 262 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 8 | 3,023 |
| 1933 | 10 | 2,494 |
| 1934 | 6 | 3,566 |
| 1939 | 5 | 3,828 |
| 1940 | 5 | 3,802 |
| 1941 | 5 | 3,861 |
| 1943 | 5 | 3,902 |
| 1946 | 5 | 3,873 |
| 1948 | 7 | 3,226 |
| 1949 | 5 | 4,069 |
| 1950 | 5 | 4,048 |
| 1952 | 6 | 3,626 |
| 1953 | 5 | 4,197 |
| 1955 | 6 | 3,773 |
| 2004 | 6 | 10,942 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 40 | 894 |
| 2012 | 36 | 998 |
| 2013 | 60 | 663 |
| 2014 | 81 | 521 |
| 2015 | 92 | 473 |
| 2016 | 138 | 347 |
| 2017 | 147 | 327 |
| 2018 | 168 | 283 |
| 2019 | 173 | 283 |
| 2020 | 164 | 283 |
| 2021 | 176 | 270 |
| 2022 | 202 | 232 |
| 2023 | 186 | 244 |
| 2024 | 183 | 262 |
| 2025 | 195 | 240 |

## People named Norah

- Norah Jones, American musician (born 1979)
- Norah Lange, Argentine author (1905–1972)
- Norah O'Donnell, American television journalist who is currently a senior correspondent on CBS News and con
- Norah Neilson Gray, British artist of the Glasgow School (1882-1931)
- Norah Baring, English actress (1905-1985)
- Norah Elam, British suffragist (1878-1961)
- Norah McClintock, Canadian writer known for crime or detective fiction (1952–2017)
- Princess Margaret of Connaught, British princess; Crown Princess of Sweden as the first wife of King Gustaf VI Adolf (1882
- Margaret Elphinstone, British writer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.