Nora — #22 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Nora

The Social Security Administration has registered 186,719 babies named Nora between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nora currently holds the #22 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 6,276 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nora performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 44,074 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Nora shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 13,079 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Nora in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nora in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 186,719 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.