Norena
Norena was last recorded in 1991, when 5 babies were given it; 120 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Norena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Norena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,706, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1939, the peak
Norena peaked in 1939, when 9 girls were given it, #3,085 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | #14,706 | 2.7 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,610 | 3.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,347 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,252 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,887 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,629 | 2.5 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,090 | 3.5 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,300 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,598 | 6.1 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,176 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 9 | #3,085 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,814 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,329 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,504 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,915 | 6.7 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,673 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,619 | 7.4 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,779 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,045 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,564 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Norena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Norena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Norena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Norena, and how old are they?
An estimated 48 Americans named Norena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 188 people named Norena (183 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 57 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 10,580 babies since 1880, Norena is the fifth most given (1.1% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Norena and names like it
- Compare Norena and NorineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sNorena peaked in 1939.
- The top names of 1939The year the most babies were named Norena.
- Names starting with NMost given first.