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What does Norah mean?
Norah 
▲ as a name for girls is of Latin and Greek derivation, and the meaning of the name Norah is "honor; other, foreign; woman of honor; compassion; light; light; woman of honor". Norah is an alternate spelling of Annora (Latin). Norah is also a derivative of Eleanor (Old French, Old German). Norah is also used as a variation of Honor (Latin), a variation of Leonora (Greek), and a variant of Nora (English, Greek, Latin).
ASSOCIATED WITH greek, compassion (gracious), light
Variations
OTHER FORMS VIA ANNORA, ELEANOR, HONOR, LEONORA, NORA Anora, Anorah, Elora▲, Enora, Honorah, Leora▼, Nonie, Nore, Norina, Norine, Onora, Ora▼
CREATIVE FORMS(female) Nairah, ..
(male) Nonal, ..
MIDDLE NAME PAIRINGS
Norah Braelynn (N.B.), ..
How popular is Norah?
Norah is a somewhat popular first name for women (#2935 out of 4276, Top 69%) and also a somewhat popular last name for all people (#94227 out of 150436, Top 63%). (2000 U.S. CENSUS)
Norah reached its peak position of #136 in the U.S. in the year 2017, and is presently at #140. (2018 BIRTH STATISTICS)
Which version is better?
Eleanor (#32 THE PREVIOUS YEAR), Elora (#724), Honor (#1919), Leonora, Leora (#1680), Nonie, Nora (#30), Norine and Ora are the popular varying forms of Norah (#140) rated in the Top 2000. Adoption of these relations of Norah was more pronounced among parents during 1910-1919 (AVERAGE #928) and is almost as widespread today (#1252, ▼11%), but with versions like Ora becoming less stylish. Elora, Nora and Norah are three of the more contemporarily stylish girl names in this list.
Similar Names
Norah▲ is alike in pronunciation to Nari, Neera, Nera, Nira, Noura, Nura, Nuru and Nyree. Other suggested similar-sounding names are Abrah, Adrah, Barah, Carah, Cyrah, Darah, Dorah, Drorah (see Derora), Farah▲, Jorah, Karah, Kyrah, Leorah, Lorah, Marah, Merah, Mirah, Monah, Morah, Moriah, Myrah, Neomah, Niah, Niran, Noa▲, Nola, Nolan, Nona▼, Nonah, Nonnah, Norda, Norm, Norma▼, Norna, Norne, Nova▲, Nyah▼, Nylah▲, Oonah, Oprah, Orah, Perah, Sarah▼, Serah, Tarah▼, Terah, Tovah, Yonah, Zarah, Zorah and Zorrah. These names tend to be less commonly used than Norah.
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