Norah

Where Norah comes from

The dictionaries list Norah as a given name — a female given name, a pseudo-Hebrew spelling of Nora, diminutive of Eleonora or Honora — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1979
    Norah Jones born
    American musician
  3. 1995
    Norah Jeruto born
    Kenyan female steeplechase runner
  4. 2017
    Peak, #136
    2,156 babies named Norah — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, a pseudo-Hebrew spelling of Nora, diminutive of Eleonora or Honora.
Namesakes
  • Norah Jones · American musician, born 1979
  • Norah Jeruto · Kenyan female steeplechase runner, born 1995
  • Norah Al Faiz · Saudi deputy education minister, born 1954
  • Norah Lange · Argentine author, 1905–1972
  • Norah Neilson Gray · British artist of the Glasgow School, 1882–1931

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.