The Nore surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 367 people carried this name — #55,841 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 833,300 people counted. That is up 18% from 311 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 421 people named Nore.
6 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 32 départements, most often Creuse.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
389 people named Nore are counted in Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Nore,
with a public archive behind them.
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Pierre Nore 1925–1944 · French resistance fighter
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Arne Nore 1946– · businessperson
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Patricia Nore 1962– · politician
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Françoise Nore 1962– · translator
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Nanna Nore 1977– · actor
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Aslak Nore 1978– · writer
Wikidata (CC0) · 7 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Nore.
- Nonnenmacher 327 · U.S. census
- Noppe 127 · U.S. census
- Norbert 246 · U.S. census
- Nord 4,635 · U.S. census
- Nordin 2,642 · U.S. census
- Nordmann 494 · U.S. census
- Noris 466 · U.S. census
- Norman 67,704 · U.S. census
- Normand 3,246 · U.S. census
- Normandin 1,956 · U.S. census
- North 20,343 · U.S. census
- Norval 194 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Nore is.
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