Nora
- (sorry! but i like it without the 'h") This name is clean and timeless. It sounds like it could fit a person easily from age 0 - 90. I'm a big fine of classic two syllable names that sound like old movie stars
- Nora Maeve: Nora has a beautiful sound. It is a strong name. Maeve makes it even more Irish and is a beautiful name on its own.
- Nora Pascale: Highly cool, this one. Nora is never (never meaning, "very rarely") used these days, and it seems to me to be the perfect name for a tall, dark haired, sensible, slim woman. Pascale is suitably androgynous without resorting to silliness. Nora Pascale is a name for a woman who won't be taken as "cutesy".
Nora has a number of different origins. In modern English, it probably comes from Irish. In this case, it is an anglicization of Nóra, a form of Honóra or Annóra, Irish form of the Latin name Honora (meaning "honor.")
In other European languages, Nora began as a short form of names ending in -nora, like Eleanora or Leonora.
Nora, also found as Noura, Nura or Noora can also be an Arabic name, a variation of Noor, which comes from an Arabic root meaning "light."
See Also: Norah
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