Girl
Nora
Common among Irish immigrant women arriving in the U.S. in the decades following the Great Famine. It has been climbing steadily, peaking most recently in the 2010s. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry.
LatinShort for Honora – Latin "honor"
EtymologyAlso read as "light" (from Eleanor)
Births by decade
1900s
7,236
1910s
11,171
1920s
12,424
1930s
9,039
1940s
9,481
1950s
11,598
1960s
9,585
1970s
5,777
1980s
5,575
1990s
5,533
2000s
10,921
2010s
32,247
Peaked in the 2010s · 130,587 total U.S. births since 1900