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The NORA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,203 20497 0 4
United States (1880 census) 73 38723 0 1
Change since 1880 +1130 +18226 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for NORA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 214 3519 0.005 48
California 153 20438 0.000 5
Texas 136 15223 0.001 7
Illinois 121 14681 0.001 10
New York 84 28926 0.000 4
Top States for NORA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 214 3519 0.005 48
Washington DC 8 9883 0.001 14
Illinois 121 14681 0.001 10
New Mexico 15 12557 0.001 8
Rhode Island 8 21876 0.001 8

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NORA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NORA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NORA in Louisiana than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NORA by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NORA

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the NORA surname.

Ethnic distribution of NORA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 415 34.5
White (Caucasian) 414 34.41
Black/African American 293 24.36
Asian/Pacific 51 4.24
Mixed Race 25 2.08
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.42

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NORA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

NORA is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of NORA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of NORA.

Similar names to NORA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NORA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for NORA

The following words are slight variants of NORA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.