NewName Shortlist 0 Girl · Dutch short form; also Arabic
Noor Say it: NOHR
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Meaning Two separate sources meet here: a Dutch short form of Eleonora, and Arabic nur 'light'.
Certain scholars agree on this meaning.
Among the most popular Dutch girls' names of the 2010s.
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In the United States 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 Girls 2020 Boys 2018 per 100,000 babies of that sex 7,249 babies given this name since 1979 At its height in 2018, about 1 in 5,300 girls 336 babies in 2020 Names worth a look Noa Girl Hebrew No'ah, from a root meaning 'to move', so usually read as 'movement'. It is unrelated to the male name Noah. Biblical · peak 2020 Meta Girl A German, Dutch and Scandinavian pet form of Margaret, from Greek margarites 'pearl'. Victorian · peak 1890 · forgotten Anneliese Girl Combination of Anna (Hebrew 'grace, favour') and Liese (from Elisabeth). Modern · peak 2005 · forgotten Ilse Girl German and Dutch pet form of Elisabeth. Victorian · peak 1994 Wilhelmina Girl Feminine of Wilhelm, from Germanic wil 'will, desire' and helm 'helmet, protection'. Revolutions · peak 1893 Aleida Girl Dutch form of Adelheid, from Germanic adal 'noble' and heid 'kind, sort'. Middle Ages · peak 2019 · forgotten Norma Girl Popularised by Bellini's opera Norma (1831), whose heroine's name may be from Latin norma 'rule'; the librettist's… Victorian · peak 1931 Norman Boy Germanic 'north man', originally a name for Scandinavians and later for the people of Normandy. Viking & Saxon · peak 1931 Where this comes from National birth statistics of European countries source United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.