Nora?

[AndersArms]

What do you think of Nora? I love it but do you immediately think "old lady with wrinkled tights"?

I love it!

Sadly, it doesn't go with my surname.

I don't like it, sorry.

Every name has negative connotations. No child of this generation will be called Nora batty!

I'm 30. I have no idea who Nora Batty is and never heard anyway say Nitty Nora

Awful, sorry.

To me it's in the same style as Gladys, Doris and Edna, but it seems to be popular on MN.

Nora Batty was the rather indomitable elderly lady of a certain age in Last of The Summer Wine whose thick lisle stockings were always falling down. Mid 80s I guess. You must have heard your mum and dad mention Nora Batty.

Mums in the playground used to refer to nitty Nora - looking back (my mum did too).

No one says Nitty Nora or Nora Batty these days. Definitely not something worth worrying about!

Nope never heard either parents mention it. Mind you we never had a television even so they have probably never seen that show either

If some had head lice it was just ' x has nits', no Nora mentioned

I liked it. Everyone else hated it. I'm glad I didn't use it.

I had an aunt (many many years ago) who was called Gwenora (Welsh for Guinevere (sp.)) who was always known as Nora. If there is any welsh connection in your family.

Beautiful name. Love it. No more old-lady-ish than names like Lily, Martha, Florence etc.

I think Nora Batty or Flamin' Nora.

Nora is a good name. you can attach good thoughts with Nora instead of "wrinkled tights".

Dreadful, ugly name. Sorry.

I like!

I'd go for Eleanora instead of straight Nora. I know someone with this name and she was called Nora as a child and then decided to just use Elea when she went to secondary school as she bought it was nicer

Leonora is nice also

I love it too. What's with the 'special snowflake' dig?

My dd's middle name is Norah. She is 17 and is a bit 'meh' about it. It was dh's choice as it was the name of his much loved Irish great aunt - have to say I wasn't massively keen to start with but I think it suits dd and think it fits well with her other names. It has definitely grown on me.

Very popular in the Netherlands with nicknames Noor and Noortje.

I know a couple of babies called Nora. I like it, Nora Batty is a disappearing reference and have never heard of Nitty Nora (am 32). I think it might become quite popular, a bit like Martha.

Awful.

I don't like is as a stand alone name, but love some of the longer names it can be used as a diminutive of. Especially Eleanor.

Also Bloody Nora

Love Norah with the "h". Dora and Cora are alternatives too.

It's very "old lady". My 80 something year old auntie is "Norah". I guess it's a name you can warm to. Just very under used these days.