Nora is a lovely, refined name that conjures up images of Belle Epoch ladies in fur-trimmed coats skating in Central Park. Long seen as a quintessentially Irish name, Nora is a quietly stylish favorite tiptoeing up the popularity ladder. Nora has two separate origin stories, as a derivative of both Honora and Eleanor. The Irish and Anglo-Norman version derives from Honora, based on the Latin word honor. The Hungarians spawned Nora as a short form of Eleonora, a variation of Eleanor.

The Supreme Court announced in a news release that retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female justice, had passed away at the age of 93 in Phoenix from complications stemming from advanced dementia and a respiratory ailment. Who was Sandra Day O’Connor? Born on March 26, 1930, Sandra Day O’Connor is a retired American lawyer, jurist, and former political figure best known for her eight years as an associate justice on the US Supreme Court, which ran from 1981 to 2006.