Girl's name
Nóra
“NOH-ra”
IPA: /ˈn̪ˠoːɾˠə/ [ˈn̪ˠõːɾˠə/
from Honora, Latin honor — 'honour'
The story behind the name
Norman-French Honora became Onóra and then Nóra, and by the 19th century it was among the commonest names in Ireland. Nora Barnacle of Galway, who met James Joyce on 16 June 1904, the day he set Ulysses on, carried it into literary history.
Where the name belongs
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