Girls' name · since 1913
Norberta
Norberta has 256 recorded births since 1913 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1932 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #17,390 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 256
- born since 1913
- 1930s
- peak decade
Norberta is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 256 have been recorded since 1913.
Norberta has 256 recorded births among girls since 1913, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1930s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1913 to 1976.
- #17,390 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 256 born since 1913
- 1930s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Norberta ranks #17,390 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 256 born since 1913, peaking in the 1930s.
- #17,390 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 256
- born since 1913
- 1930s
- peak decade
Norberta's 256 recorded births place it above 75.95% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Norberta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Norberta's SSA record in two at 1940 and the more recent half accounts for 47% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 53%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1914, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1932 peak of 14, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Norberta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1913–1976
- Peak year (1932)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 64 years of records
Norberta by decade
1930s is the heaviest window (57 births, 22% of the file).
1930s was Norberta's strongest decade.
57 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 22% of all-time use.
Norberta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 22
1910s
22 births
- 1920s
1920s
56 births
- 1930s
1930s
57 births
- 1940s
1940s
52 births
- 1950s
1950s
52 births
- 1960s 12
1960s
12 births
- 1970s 5
1970s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1930s at 57 births (22% of all-time use).
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- Norberta's decade-level peak was the 1930s (57 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 1970s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Norberta: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1932)
Similar record span (~63 yrs)
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, 1913–1976 (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 Norberta 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.