Nori
Nori is given to both girls and boys: 193 girls and 31 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,196 among girls’ names and #3,631 among boys’, #2,053 among all names counting both); 3,272 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,220 Americans named Nori and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nori by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nori?
#1,196 among girls’ names, 2025
Nori rose from #1,605 in 2015 to #1,196 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.08 to 0.12 per 1,000.
322 babies in 2023, the peak
Nori peaked in 2023, when 322 babies were given it (298 girls, #898 among girls’ names). The 224 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 70% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 193 | #1,196 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 251 | #1,016 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 298 | #898 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 290 | #933 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 252 | #1,014 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 198 | #1,176 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 249 | #1,035 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 161 | #1,398 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 153 | #1,472 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 168 | #1,392 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 134 | #1,605 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 102 | #1,966 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,851 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,236 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,043 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,185 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,745 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,924 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,650 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,761 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,699 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,728 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,529 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,308 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,768 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,681 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,158 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,439 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,410 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,339 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,707 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,444 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,879 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,513 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,826 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,080 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,972 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,198 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,781 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,123 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,428 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,703 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,880 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,841 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,091 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,458 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,463 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,401 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,688 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,947 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,833 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,528 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,163 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,555 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,964 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,127 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,149 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,636 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,570 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,871 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,118 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,905 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,519 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,015 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,148 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,125 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nori a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,272 Americans recorded as Nori, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nori: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nori, and how old are they?
3,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,272 Americans ever recorded as Nori. The median Nori alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 1,790 people named Nori (1,596 women and girls, 194 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,659 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 127 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 129 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 68 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 195 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,700 |
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 Nori born?
The states with the most babies named Nori are New York, North Carolina and California, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 20 | #1,134 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 18 | #764 | 1.3× |
| California | 16 | #1,465 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 15 | #703 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 15 | #1,602 | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 13 | #419 | 2.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #856 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 11 | #694 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,408 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,237 | 0.5× |
Where Nori is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nori is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1950 it was given 2.3 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 Nori 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 234,267 babies since 1880, Nori is the third most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 224 of their 7,990 babies (2.8%), again the third most given.
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 Nori
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 Nori and names like it
- Compare Nori and NoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNori peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nori since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Nori.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nori alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.