Norene
Norene was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 4,790 Americans have been recorded with it between 1891 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,740 Americans named Norene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (36% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 66 and 82.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Norene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Norene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,511, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
121 babies in 1931, the peak
Norene peaked in 1931, when 121 girls were given it, #602 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,511 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,735 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,774 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,031 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,438 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,941 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,081 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,880 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,265 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,704 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 | #11,602 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,780 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,545 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,368 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,771 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,868 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,756 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,519 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,792 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,734 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,683 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,287 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,604 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,760 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,437 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,329 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,098 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 40 | #1,857 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,908 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,573 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 52 | #1,552 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,751 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 56 | #1,430 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 57 | #1,403 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 63 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 74 | #1,162 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 73 | #1,135 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 85 | #1,020 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 81 | #1,034 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 92 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 111 | #840 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 88 | #927 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 111 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 101 | #825 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 97 | #762 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 105 | #745 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 109 | #744 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 96 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 77 | #828 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 87 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 68 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 91 | #720 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 96 | #699 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 77 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 102 | #653 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 92 | #699 | 0.09 |
| 1933 | 103 | #648 | 0.10 |
| 1932 | 103 | #665 | 0.10 |
| 1931 | 121 | #602 | 0.11 |
| 1930 | 95 | #716 | 0.08 |
| 1929 | 90 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1928 | 98 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1927 | 104 | #710 | 0.09 |
| 1926 | 83 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 84 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 74 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 101 | #725 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 76 | #844 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 82 | #811 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 77 | #823 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 85 | #764 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 112 | #680 | 0.10 |
| 1917 | 78 | #787 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 89 | #725 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 80 | #745 | 0.08 |
| 1914 | 50 | #837 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 40 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 33 | #885 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 28 | #822 | 0.07 |
| 1910 | 34 | #735 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 20 | #928 | 0.06 |
| 1908 | 17 | #997 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,077 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 16 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 16 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 14 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 16 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 13 | #1,007 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 12 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,291 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 11 | #1,015 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,885 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,505 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,532 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,394 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,211 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,484 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Norene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Norene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 98 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Norene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Norene, and how old are they?
1,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 36% of the 4,790 Americans ever recorded as Norene. The median Norene alive today is 75 years old; half are between 66 and 82.
The 2020 Census counted 2,230 people named Norene (2,228 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,206 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 499 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 975 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 190 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 38 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 25 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Norene born?
The states with the most babies named Norene are Michigan, California and Illinois, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 315 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| California | 238 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 229 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 215 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 184 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 138 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 128 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Oklahoma | 104 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Wisconsin | 62 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Arkansas | 55 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Norene is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Norene is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1910 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Norene with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 11,040 babies since 1880, Norene is the second most given (43% 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Norene
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Norene and names like it
- Compare Norene and NorineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sNorene peaked in 1931.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Norene since 1910.
- The top names of 1931The year the most babies were named Norene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Norene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.