Norah is a spelling of Nora, which began as a short form of Honora, from the Latin honor, "honor", and of Eleanor, usually read as "light". It is an Irish favorite, the name of the heroine in Ibsen's A Doll's House, and singer Norah Jones made the h-spelling familiar in the United States. Norah entered the US top 1000 in 2003, peaked at number 137 in 2017 and ranks number 262 among girls' names in 2025.