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Can be a nickname for Eleanora.
Also Romansh:
Source: "Vornamen in der Schweiz. Prénoms en Suisse. I nomi in Svizzera. Prenoms in Svizra" (1993) published by the Association of Swiss registrars
https://www.portraitarchiv.ch/portrait?page=112
It's a cute nickname for Eleanora or Eleanorah.
Also used in Spanish. It is used as a diminutive of Leonor.https://www.conmishijos.com/nombres/leonor/
https://www.elalmanaque.com/santoral/febrero/22-2-leonor.htm(in Spanish, they mention Nora as a diminutive of Leonor).It is used as a standalone name in modern times. There are 19.048 bearers of this name in Spain and the average age of the bearers is 14 (source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística). [noted -ed]
Nora is also commonly used in the country of Georgia, where it is a short form of ელეონორა (Eleonora).In Georgian, Nora is written as: ნორა.Sources used:
- http://kids.ge/baby-name?id=188 (in Georgian)
- Eleonora: https://web.archive.org/web/20130130185854/http://name.interes.ge/dreams.php?action=view&id=338&from=action=search|by=%E1%83%94 (in Georgian; mentions Nora)
- http://www.geogen.ge/ge/wsearch/4308/ (in Georgian; see the entry for Eleonora, which mentions Nora)
- Nora: https://web.archive.org/web/20130130185205/http://name.interes.ge/dreams.php?action=search&by=%E1%83%9C&nr_page=2 (in Georgian; scroll down to the entry for Nora)
- http://www.geogen.ge/ge/wsearch/4316/ (in Georgian; see the entry for Nora near the bottom)
- Nora Kutateladze (1921-2013), a Georgian radiologist and professor: https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9C%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90_%E1%83%A5%E1%83%A3%E1%83%97%E1%83%90%E1%83%97%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%AB%E1%83%94 (in Georgian)
- (general): https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?first=Nora&last=&search=Zoeken
https://ge.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Nora/+/ge-0-Georgi%C3%AB (lists only bearers living in Georgia)
- You can also find plenty of bearers on Facebook. Here are some examples of bearers that I found on there (for privacy reasons, I will refrain from directly linking to their profiles):• Nora Alapi.shvili
• Nora Areva.dze
• Nora Bebi.ava
• Nora Beglara.shvili
• ნორა ბრეგვა.ძე (Nora Bregva.dze)
• Nora Dzamia.shvili
• Nora Elbaki.dze
• Nora Gvarama.dze
• Nora Kezhera.shvili
• ნორა მიქელთა.ძე (Nora Mikelta.dze)
• Nora Navroza.shvili
• Nora Petria.shvili
• Nora Subel.iani
• Nora Zakar.aiaNOTE: all of these people have a public profile, i.e. apparently they do not mind being searchable and googleable.
Nora is also Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Estonian. The name day for Nora in Poland is February 12. The name day for Nora in the Czech Republic is July 8. The name day for Nora in Slovakia is August 31. The name day for Nora in Estonia is July 8.
Also Sardinian: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenomi_sardi#M
Also Romanian: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_(dezambiguizare)
Also Estonian: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_(eesnimi)
Also Slovak: https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_(prv%C3%A9_meno)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nora -- offer sources
You'll find various bearers on social media.
Also Latvian: https://www.pmlp.gov.lv/lv/sakums/statistika/personvardu-datu-baze/?id=137&query=Nora [noted -ed]
In 2018, 2 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Nora who is registered female with the Social Security Administration. It is the 658th most common female first name for living U.S. citizens.
It is very widely used in Arabic, pronounced and written as both Nora and Norah. [noted -ed]
This name is used in Italy.
In 2015 were born 335 Nora (the highest ever) makes it #107 in the feminine ranking of baby names used that year.
This name is also used in Dutch and Limburgish. For The Netherlands as a whole, Nora is now in the top 100 (as you can check yourself in your own popularity statistics for The Netherlands). For many decades, it used to be a rare name in the country as a whole, but it has been steadily climbing in popularity since 1998. It reached the 62nd place in 2011, which is the most popular that Nora has ever been here so far.
This name is also used in the Netherlands and Italy.
Nora was very popular from the 1880's until the 1900's and started to drop in usage and popularity in 1910. In the year 2000 it began to grow again in popularity and usage. The spelling Norah didn't appear on the top 1000 list until 2000.

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