Nora

Henrik Ibsen gave us the most famous Nora in 1879, when she walked out of her marriage and slammed the door on A Doll's House — a sound that echoed through a century of feminist theater. The name is shorter than its possible parents: Honora, from the Latin for honor; Eleanor, for shining light; the Irish Nora. Whichever source you prefer, the result is the same — two clean syllables, spare as a pencil sketch. After decades of quiet, Nora has surged back into the American top thirty. Literary, minimalist, and just a touch Scandinavian. A name that does not explain itself and does not need to.