Girls' name · since 1940

Noralie

Since 1940, U.S. Social Security records show 16 babies named Noralie, peaking in 2025. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.

#49,074 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,385 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
16
born since 1940
2020s
peak decade

16 babies have been named Noralie since 1940, making it today's #13385 girls' name.

Noralie has 16 recorded births among girls since 1940, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #13385 as of the latest data, more common than 23% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1940 to 2025.

  • #49,074 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #13,385 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 16 born since 1940
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Noralie ranks #49,074 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,385 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 16 born since 1940, peaking in the 2020s.

#49,074 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,385 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
16
born since 1940
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%22.6%
Noralie vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Noralie's 16 recorded births place it above 31.73% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Noralie compares

16 6th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Noralie's all-time total is 96% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Noralie Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 16 376 567,345
Peak-year births 6 21 19,840

Noralie's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Noralie splits its recorded history at 2014: 69% of all births land in the more recent half, 31% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1940 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 6 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.

Noralie popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1940–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2025)
6
Annual births at peak, across 86 years of records
4.555.566.5 194020142025 6

Noralie by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (6 births, 38% of the file).

2020s was Noralie's strongest decade.

6 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 38% of all-time use.

Noralie births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 6 births (38% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Noralie?
Noralie has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1940, according to SSA data. Its archive ordinal is #49,074 of 72,339 among girls' names (total births, highest first). Among girls in 2025, it is #13,385 of 17,297. 6 babies were born in 2025, its single highest year.
Where does Noralie sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Noralie ranks #49,074 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,385 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Noralie most popular?
Noralie was most popular in the 2020s decade with 6 total births. The single peak year was 2025.
How long has the name Noralie been used?
Noralie has been recorded in Social Security data since 1940, spanning 86 years of data through 2025.
What names are similar to Noralie?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Norma, Nora, Norah, Noreen, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Two nationwide peer axes for Noralie: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1940–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Noralie draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.