How Many People Are Named Norah?
people named Norah are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 10,463 people in the US has this name
Based on 33,998 babies named Norah in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
2,156 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of NORA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Norah in English. Counting Norah and these spellings together, about 165,688 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Norah (99.9%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Norah alive today is about 11 years old, and 96% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 14 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Norah first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2017, to 2,156 babies. In 2025, 1,191 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Norah has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #137, in 2017. In 2025 it ranked #262.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #262 |
| Best rank | #137 (2017) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #181 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Norah alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Norah were born in California than in any other state: about 2,382 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Norah was given 2.7 times as often in New Hampshire, 2.5 times in North Dakota and 2.4 times in Maine.
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