Aurora vs Nora

Nora is the more popular girl name in Canada, #17 to #38 in 2023. Aurora is the more popular girl name in the United States, #16 to #22 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

Place by place

Each place ranks its own registered births, so the two names are compared inside one list at a time, in that place's most recent complete year.

AuroraNora#1#100#250#500Canada#38 → #17 ↑21United States#16 → #22 ↓6Alberta#14 → #16 ↓2British Columbia#22 → #14 ↑8Ontario#24 → #14 ↑10Quebec#291 → #49 ↑242
PlaceYear Aurora Nora Ahead
Canada2023#38#17Nora
United States2024#16#22Aurora
Alberta2024#14#16Aurora
British Columbia2024#22#14Nora
Ontario2024#24#14Nora
Quebec2024#291#49Nora

Aurora and Nora in Canada, 2020–2023

Aurora climbed from #58 in 2020 to #38 in 2023 in Canada. Nora climbed from #29 in 2020 to #17 in 2023 in Canada.

#1#50#100#17 Nora#38 Aurora2020202120222023

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Aurora and Nora in the United States, 2020–2024

Aurora climbed from #36 in 2020 to #16 in 2024 in the United States. Nora climbed from #30 in 2020 to #22 in 2024 in the United States. Aurora passed Nora in 2023.

#1#50#16 Aurora#22 Nora20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

How this comparison is built

Both names are ranked by how many babies were registered with that exact spelling, so every position here counts real births rather than votes or searches. Rank is the only measure every source publishes, so it is what the charts plot; birth counts are not released for every place.

A place appears only in the years it published a complete list, which is why a name can be missing from a year it was almost certainly given to some babies. See every head-to-head on the site, or the ranked lists these names come from.