Nora (name)
Nora is a feminine given name. It mainly originates as a short form of Honora, a common Anglo-Norman name, ultimately derived from the Latin word Honor. In Hungary, the name Nóra originates as a short form of Eleonóra.
The Irish Nóra is likewise probably an Irish form of Honora. A diminutive form of Nóra is Nóirín; this name has numerous anglicised forms, such as: Norene and Norine.
Nora has been among the most popular girl names in Norway in the 2000s, topping the list of most popular girl names in 2012.
In Finnish and Arabic there is a given name Noora.
"Bloody Nora", "ruddy Nora" or "flaming Nora" is a British minced oath, not named after any real individual.
People
Notable people with the name include:- Nora Abolins, Canadian-born Latvian football player
- Nora Aceval, Algerian writer
- Nora Achahbar, Dutch politician and jurist
- Nora Adamian, Soviet-Armenian writer
- Nora Ahlberg, Norwegian psychologist
- Norah Aiton, British architect
- Norah Al Faiz, Saudi deputy education minister
- Nora Al Matrooshi, Emirati astronaut
- Nora Lilian Alcock, British pioneering plant pathologist
- Norah Amsellem, French opera singer
- Norah Ansell, British artist
- Nora Ariffin, Singaporean fashion model and real estate broker
- Nora Armani, Egyptian play director
- Nora Arnezeder, French actress and singer
- Nora Ashe, Irish teacher, nationalist and Irish language activist
- Nora Aslan, Argentine visual artist and photographer
- Nora Astorga, Nicaraguan guerilla, politician, judge, Vice Minister of Justice and ambassador to the United Nations
- Nora Attal, British fashion model
- Nora Aunor, Filipina actress
- Nora Awolowo, Nigerian film director, cinematographer, documentary photographer, producer and creative director
- Nora Azmy, Egyptian synchronized swimmer
- Nora Azurmendi, Spanish handballer
- Nora Bajčíková, Slovak tennis player
- Nora Baldenweg, Swiss/Australian female composer
- Norah Balls, British suffragette, women's rights campaigner, magistrate, councillor.
- Norah Baring, English actress
- Nora Barlow, British botanist and geneticist
- Norah Barlow, New Zealand business executive
- Nora Barnacle, wife of author James Joyce
- Nora Stanton Barney, British civil engineer and suffragist
- Nora Barrientos, Chilean politician
- Nóra Barta, Hungarian diver
- Nora Raleigh Baskin, American author of books for children and young adults
- Nora Bayes, American singer and vaudeville performer
- Nora Bayrakdarian, Lebanese Professor of Armenian descent
- Norah Beare, Northern Ireland politician
- Nora Beloff, English journalist and politician
- Nora Bennis, Irish housewife and politician
- Nora Holstad Berge, Norwegian footballer
- Nora von Bergen, Swiss ice dancer
- Nora Bernard, Mi'kmaq activist
- Nora Berra, French politician
- Nora Berrah, Algerian physicist
- Nora J. Besansky, American molecular biologist
- Nora Beust, American writer
- Nora Aída Bicet, Spanish-Cuban javelin thrower
- Norah Bigirwa-Nyendwoha, Ugandan politician
- Nora Francisca Blackburne, British casting director and civil servant
- Nora Brooks Blakely, American literary editor
- Norah Blaney, British music hall performer
- Nora Blom, Dutch tennis player
- Norah Borges, Argentine artist, art critic and member of the Florida group
- Nora Bossong, German writer
- Nora Boustany, Lebanese journalist and educator
- Norah Braden, British artisan potter
- Lady Norah Bradley-Birt, British aristocrat
- Nora Brambilla, Italian and German theoretical physicist
- Nora Vagi Brash, Papua New Guinean author
- Nora Bretón, Mexican physicist
- Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
- Nora Brownell, American businessman
- Nora Brugman, Spanish sailor
- Nora Jean Bruso, American singer
- Nora Burglon, American author
- Norah Burke, British novelist and writer
- Norah Burnard, New Zealand school dental supervisor and journal editor
- Nora Calderwood, Scottish mathematician and professor
- Nora Callebout, British track athlete
- Nora Campos, American politician
- Nora Cano, Mexican actress and singer
- Nora Cardoza, Mexican boxer
- Norah Carter, New Zealand photographer
- Nora Cecil, English-American actress
- Nora K. Chadwick, British philologist
- Norah Chambers, British prison of war chorale conductor
- Nora Chesson, English journalist and poet
- Nora Chipaumire, choreographer and performer
- Nora Clench, Canadian musician
- Nora Stewart Coleman, First Lady of American Samoa
- Nora Collyer, Canadian modernist painter
- Nora Connolly, British actress
- Nora Conway, Irish badminton player
- Nora Cornolle, French mixed martial artist
- Nora Cortiñas, Argentine social psychologist, activist, human rights defender
- Nora Coton-Pélagie, French footballer
- Nora Cuevas, Chilean politician
- Nora Cullen, Argentine actress
- Nora Cundell, English painter
- Nora Daduut, Nigerian academic and politician
- Nora Danish, Malaysian actress, singer, host and model
- Nora Dannehy, American attorney
- Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Tlingit poet, short-story writer and Tlingit language scholar
- Nora David, Baroness David, British politician and life peer
- Nora Fontaine Davidson, American schoolteacher
- Nora Daza, Filipina chef, restaurateur, socio-civic leader, television host and best-selling cookbook author
- Nora Dean, Jamaican singer
- Nora Decter, Canadian author and university instructor
- Nora Demleitner, American law professor
- Nora Denney, American actress
- Nora Dillon, English Girl Guide leader
- Nora Dimitrova, Bulgarian footballer
- Norah Docker, English socialite
- Nora Domínguez, Argentine literary scholar
- Nora Dumas, Hungarian photographer
- Nora Dunblane, American actress and writer
- Nora Dunfee, American actress
- Nora Dunn, American actress and comedian
- Norah Dunphy, UK architect and town planner
- Nora Eddington, American actress and socialite
- Nóra Edöcsény, Hungarian triathlete
- Nora Lie Eghdami, Norwegian footballer
- Nora Ekberg, known as Little Sis Nora, Swedish singer
- Nora El Koussour, Dutch actress
- Norah Elam, Irish-born British suffragette
- Nora England, American linguist
- Nora England (artist), British artist
- Nora Ephron, American writer
- Nóra Érfalvy, Hungarian rhythmic gymnast
- Nora Espinoza, republican member of the New Mexico House of Representatives
- Nora Ezell, African-American quilter
- Nora Fatehi, Canadian-Moroccan dancer and actress
- Nora Federici, Italian statistician
- Nora Fernandes, Indian footballer
- Nora Fernández, Spanish artistic gymnast
- Nora Fingscheidt, German film director and screenwriter
- Nora Fischer, several people
- Nora FitzGibbon, New Zealand nurse
- Norah Flatley, American artistic gymnast
- Nora Kathleen Fletcher, Australian nurse
- Nora Forster, German-British music promoter
- Nora May French, American poet
- Nora Fridrichová, Czech television presenter
- Norah Fry, advocate and campaigner
- Norah Fulcher, English watercolor portrait artist
- Nora Gal, Russian translator
- Nora Ruvalcaba Gámez, Mexican politician
- Norah Gaughan, American hand knitting pattern designer
- Nora Trueblood Gause, American humanitarian
- Norah Geddes, Scottish landscape architect
- Norah Gibbons, Irish children's advocate and social worker
- Nora Giménez, Argentine politician
- Nora Ginzburg, Argentine lawyer and politician
- Nora Gjakova, Kosovo-Albanian judoka, Olympic champion
- Nora Neset Gjøen, Norwegian footballer
- Nora Gomringer, German and Swiss poet and writer
- Nóra Görbe, Hungarian pop singer and actress
- Nora Gordon, British actress
- Nora I. Goreau, Panamanian marine biologist and teacher
- Norah Gorsen, British actress
- Nora Gould, Canadian poet
- Norah Neilson Gray, Scottish artist
- Nora Greenberg, Israeli politician and LGBT rights activist
- Nora Gregor, Austrian actress
- Nora Griffith, Scottish Egyptologist and illustrator
- Nora Groce, British anthropologist
- Nora Grossman, American film producer
- Nora Gubisch, French operatic mezzo-soprano
- Nora Guinn, American judge
- Nora Gulbrandsen, Norwegian porcelain designer
- Norah Gurdon, Australian painter
- Nora Guthrie, American record producer
- Norah Hamilton, USA artist and educator
- Nora Spencer Hamner, American nurse
- Nora Hamzawi, French humorist, comedian and actor
- Nora Harkin, Irish republican socialist and activist
- Nora Heald, British journalist and editor
- Nora Hendrix, African-Canadian vaudeville performer
- Nora Heroum, Finnish footballer
- Nora Herting, American artist
- Nora Heysen, Australian artist
- Nora Hirano, Japanese comedian
- Nóra Hoffmann, Hungarian ice dancer
- Norah M. Holland, writer
- Nora Holt, American critic, composer, singer and pianist
- Nora Hood, Aboriginal Australian religious figure
- Nora Houfová, Austrian actress
- Norah Hoult, Irish writer
- Nora Houston, American painter
- Norah Howard, British actress
- Nora Hsiung Chu, Chinese educator
- Nora Ikstena, Latvian writer and cultural manager
- Nora Illi, Swiss Muslim activist
- Norah Isaac, Welsh author and advocate
- Nora Istrefi, Kosovo-Albanian singer
- Nora Iuga, Romanian poet, writer and translator
- Nora Ivanova, Austrian sprinter
- Nora Foss al-Jabri, Norwegian singer
- Nora Jacobson, American filmmaker
- Norah C. James, English novelist
- Nora Jenčušová, Slovak road cyclist
- N. K. Jemisin, American science fiction and fantasy writer
- Norah Jeruto, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Nora Johnson, American novelist
- Nora Johnston, English carillonneur and inventor
- Norah Jones, American singer
- Nora Junco, Spanish politician
- Nora Kaye, American ballet dancer and choreographer
- Nora Okja Keller, Korean-American author
- Nora Kelly, several people
- Nora Kerin, British theatre actress and stage beauty
- Nora Khan, American art critic, curator and writer
- Nora Kirkpatrick, American actress
- Nora Köppel, Argentine weightlifter
- Nora Kovach, Hungarian ballerina
- Nora Krug, German-American author and illustrator
- Nora Benjamin Kubie, American writer, artist and amateur archaeologist
- Nora Lafi, French historian
- Nora Lam, Chinese minister
- Nora Lane, American actress
- Norah Lange, Argentine author
- Nora de Leeuw, Welsh computational chemist
- Nora Levin, American historian
- Princess Nora of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein princess
- Nora Lindahl, Swedish athlete
- Norah Lindsay, British socialite and garden designer
- Nora Listach, American baseball player
- Nora Lofts, British writer
- Nora Bustamante Luciani, Venezuelan physician, historian, writer and intellectual
- Nora Lum, known as Awkwafina, American actress
- Norah Lunkuse, Ugandan netball player
- Nora Lustig, American economist
- Nora Hamou Maamar, French-Algerian footballer
- Nora MacMunn, British geography educator
- Norah Magero, Kenyan mechanical engineer and renewable energy expert
- Nora Magid, Canadian-American writer
- Norah Mahlangu, South African politician
- Nora Mandray, French filmmaker
- Nora Margaret Manella, American judge
- Nora Marlowe, American actress
- Norah Martin, Australian religious sister and the superior general of the Little Company of Mary
- Norah McCarthy, Canadian figure skater
- Norah McClintock, Canadian writer
- Nora McDermott, Canadian basketball and volleyball player, coach and physical education teacher
- Norah McGuinness, Irish artist
- Nora McInerny, American author
- Nora Fisher McMillan, Irish chronologist, naturalist, botanist and museum curator
- Norah Meade, Irish journalist and humanitarian
- Nora Mebarek, French politician
- Nóra Medvegy, Hungarian chess player
- Nora Meister, Swiss Paralympic swimmer
- Nora Gúnera de Melgar, Honduran politician
- Nora Méndez, Salvadoran poet
- Nora Chapa Mendoza, American painter
- Nora Miao, Hong Kong actress
- Norah Michener, Canadian politician
- Norah Milanesi, Cameroonian swimmer
- Nora Miller, Scottish zoologist
- Nora Milnes, British social worker, educator and author
- Nora Mitrani, Bulgarian writer
- Nora Mohler, American physicist
- Nora Monie, Cameroonian athlete
- Norah Montgomerie, British folklorist, illustrator and writer
- Nora Mørk, Norwegian handball player
- Nora Naranjo Morse, Native American artist and poet
- Norah Munsu, Namibian politician
- Nora Nadjarian, Armenian-Cypriot poet and short story writer
- Nóra Nagy-Bujdosó, Hungarian basketball player
- Norah Nelson Napaljarri, Australian artist
- Nora Andy Napaltjarri, Australian artist
- Nora Nash, activist
- Nora Navas, Spanish actress
- Nora Neve, British nurse and medical missionary
- Nora Newcombe, Canadian psychologist
- Nora Ney (actress), Polish film actress
- Nora Ney, Brazilian singer
- Nora Nicholson, British actress
- Nora Noffke, American geo-biologist
- Nora-Jane Noone, Irish actress
- Nora Norrish, English table tennis player
- Nora Nouhaili, Tunisian footballer
- Nora Nova, Bulgarian-born singer
- Nora Novotny, Austrian swimmer
- Nora Connolly O'Brien, Irish politician, activist and writer
- Nora O'Connor, American Chicago-based musician
- Nora O'Daly, Irish nationalist, writer and trade unionist
- Norah O'Donnell, American journalist
- Nora O'Keeffe, Irish revolutionary and feminist
- Norah Olembo, Kenyan biochemist and policy developer
- Nora Tynan O'Mahony, Irish poet and novelist
- Norah O'Neill, American aviator
- Nora Orlandi, Italian musician and composer
- Nora Owen, Irish politician and television presenter
- Norah Patten, Irish aeronautical engineer
- Nora Payne, American singer songwriter
- Norah Lillian Penston, British botanist and academic administrator
- Nora Pierce, American author and academic
- Nora Perry, several people
- Nora Persson, Norwegian handball player
- Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips, British labour politician
- Nora Polley, Indian tennis player
- Nora Poppelwell, former mayoress of Gore
- Nora Pouillon, Austrian-American chef and restaurateur
- Nora Pöyhönen, Finnish horticulturist and educator
- Nora En Pure, Swiss South African DJ and record producer
- Nora Radcliffe, Scottish politician
- Norah Abdul Rahman, Malaysian politician
- Nora Reiche, German handball player
- Nora Renouf, British pharmaceutical chemist
- Nora Ricci, Italian actress
- Norah Richards, Irish actress and playwright
- Nora Rinne, Finnish actress
- Nora Rios, Swedish actress
- Nora Roberts, American author
- Nora Rocha, Mexican long-distance runner
- Nora Rodd, Canadian peace activist
- Nora Tausz Rónai, Brazilian holocaust survivor, architect, writer and masters swimmer
- Nora Ross, American trap shooting champion
- Nora Rubashova, Russian Catholic nun
- Norah Runge, British politician
- Nora St. Rose, Trinidadian cricketer
- Nora Salinas, Mexican actress
- Nora Samosir, Singaporean actress
- Nora Sanderson, New Zealand romance novelist
- Nora Sayre, American film critic
- Nora Cate Schaeffer, American sociologist and survey statistician
- Nora Schimming-Chase, Namibian politician
- Norah Schuster, British pathologist
- Nora E. Scott, American Egyptologist
- Nora Seitz, German politician
- Nora Shanab, Israeli footballer
- Nóra Ní Shíndile, Irish singer
- Nóra Simóka, Hungarian modern pentathlete
- Nora Simonhjell, Norwegian literary scholar
- Norah Simpson, Australian artist
- Nora Sipos, New Zealand businesswoman, humanitarian and welfare worker
- Nora Slawik, American politician
- Norah Smallwood, British publisher
- Nora Smith, several people
- Norah Smyth, British suffragette, photographer and socialist activist
- Nora Somoza, Argentine tennis player
- Nora Sopková, Czech set decorator
- Nora Stapleton, Irish rugby union footballer
- Norah Dowell Stearns, American hydrogeologist
- Nora Sterry, American teacher and academic
- Nora Stiasny, Austrian Jewish art collector
- Norah Sharpe Stone, Canadian-born American philanthropist, vintner and collector
- Norah Stoner, Canadian politician
- Norah Story, Canadian archivist
- Nora Strømstad, Norwegian alpine skier
- Nora Jane Struthers, American singer-songwriter
- Nora Subschinski, German diver
- Nora Sumberg, Australian artist
- Nora Sun, American diplomat
- Nora Sundberg, Swedish golfer
- Nora Sveaass, Norwegian psychologist
- Nora Swinburne, British actress
- Nora Tallus, Finnish ice hockey player
- Nora Torulf, Swedish author and politician
- Nora Tschirner, German actress
- Nora Turato, Croatian artist
- Nora Twomey, Irish animator, director, screenwriter, producer and voice actress
- Nora W. Tyson, US Navy admiral
- Nora Valdez, Colombian archer
- Nora Valsami, Greek actress
- Nora Vargas, American politician
- Nóra Varsányi, Hungarian handball player
- Nora Vasconcellos, American skateboarder
- Nora Veryán, Mexican actress
- Norah Vincent, American writer
- Nora Volkow, Mexican psychiatrist
- Nora Vynne, British novelist and political activist
- Nora Wagener, Luxembourgish writer
- Nora Waldstätten, Austrian actress
- Nora Wall, Irish Sisters of Mercy member
- Nora Waln, American writer
- Nora Watkins, New Zealand former footballer
- Nora Wattie, Scottish public health medicine and ante-natal pioneer
- Norah Weinstein, co-CEO of Baby2Baby
- Nora Kate Weston, Australian cabinet-maker
- Nora Wilhelm, Swiss activist and social entrepreneur
- Norah Wilson, Australian Aboriginal community worker
- Nora Xu, Chinese model
- Nora Young, Canadian broadcaster and writer
- Nora Young (cyclist), Canadian cyclist
- Nora Yú, Mexican politician
- Nora Zaïdi, former Member of the European Parliament
- Nora Zehetner, American actress
- Nora Zuckerman, American television screenwriter
Fictional characters
- Nora from the video game Fields of Mistria
- Nora from the anime Noragami
- Nora from the film Pete's Dragon
- Nora, character from the anime Witchblade
- Nora Allen from The Flash comic books
- Nora Allen (The Flash), Barry Allen's mother in the TV series The Flash
- Nora West-Allen, Barry and Iris' daughter in the TV series The Flash
- Nora Arendt in Spice and Wolf
- Nora the Arctic Fox Fairy, from the British book series Rainbow Magic
- Nora from Cytus II
- Nora Baker, eldest daughter of 'The Bakers' in the film Cheaper by the Dozen
- Nora Batty, character on the British television series Last of the Summer Wine
- Nora Beady, character from the Barnyard franchise
- Nora Bing, character in Friends
- Nora Braverman, character in the Parenthood tv series
- Nora Charles, character in the Dashiell Hammett novel, The Thin Man
- Nora Carpenter, character in Final Destination 2
- Nora Clitheroe, from the play The Plough and the Stars
- Nora Darhk, character in Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow
- Nora Dershlit, a character from iCarly
- Nora Durst, a character from the American television series The Leftovers
- Nora Estheim, character in the video game Final Fantasy XIII
- Nora Fanshaw, in Marriage Story
- Nora Fries, character in DC Comics
- Nora Gainesborough, a character from True Blood
- Nora Grey, character in the Hush, Hush series of books by Becca Fitzpatrick
- Nora Hanen, character on the American television series One Life to Live
- Nora Harris, character in the video game The Last of Us Part II
- * Nora, character in the television series The Last of Us
- Nora Helmer, character in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
- Nora Holleran, character from the book and film Red, White & Royal Blue
- Nora of Kelmendi, legendary character in the Albanian folklore
- Nora Krank, a character in the film Christmas with the Kranks
- Nora Lewin, character on the American television series Law & Order
- Nora Mae Edwards, character in the movie Graverobbers
- Nora Reid, character on the television series The Wilds
- Noora Amalie Sætre, character in Norwegian TV show SKAM
- Nora Singh, character in the TV series The Muppets Mayhem
- Norah Stoakes, character in the Canadian young adult novel The Sky Is Falling
- Nora Thunderman, character in the TV show The Thundermans
- Nora Valkyrie from the animated web series RWBY
- Nora Wakeman, character in My Life as a Teenage Robot
- Nora Walker, a character in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why
- Nora Walker, character on the American television series ''Brothers & Sisters''