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Noora

#2,921 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Noora has been given to 923 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #2,921 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Noora, 2025

1 in 57,200

Noora over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Noora: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Noora means

Noora has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Noora

A separate documented entry treats Noora as a form of Nora. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Noora as a alternate transcription of Nura. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Noora is used in Estonian and Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eleonoora and Nora.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Noora is pronounced /ˈnoːrɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 923 girls were recorded with the name Noora between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 63 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,741 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,435 in 2020 to #2,921 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,580 in 2015 to #2,921 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Noora?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 57,200
58 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 27,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,921
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
39,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Noora sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 39,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Noora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nooras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Noora was born before 2015 — so the typical Noora is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
923
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (337).

Is Noora rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−180
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+514
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+659
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.32×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.1%
Peak was 2024 (63)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,741
2024

Spellings of Noora

Noora is not the most common spelling — Norma is, with 23.6% against Noora's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Noora is used

Across 1910–2025, Noora was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 213,340 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Noora has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Noora around the world

Where Noora ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #733
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2025
    #3,816
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,109
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Noora by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,921
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 514
Best rank ever
#2,741
2024
Peak year
2024
63 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
923
Count in 2025
58

Names similar to Noora

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Noora

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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