girls:
31.3k births since 1880
#798 (86th percentile)
boys:
129 births since 1919
#4457 (3rd percentile)
overall:
31.4k births since 1880
#1434 (81st percentile)
The name Norah is the #1,434 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 31,405 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 81.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #798 (86.0% percentile) for all time with 31,276 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,457 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 129 births since 1919.
Norah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1919 for boys).
The name Norah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Norah reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 86.0% percentile (ranked #134) with 1,141 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 1,141 births per million (ranked 86.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Norah ranks #193 for girls (79.7% percentile) with 846 births per million, which is 74.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Norah reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #516) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Norah".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Nora. View all variations of Nora.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Norah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 10 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Nora" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Nora..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Norah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Norah is pronounced as NAW-ruh, which has 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like N AO1 R AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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