Noriah
Noriah was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,862 among girls’ names; 433 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Noriah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Noriah?
#5,862 among girls’ names, 2025
Noriah fell from #5,786 in 2015 to #5,862 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 12.9 to 13.1 per million.
29 babies in 2017, the peak
Noriah peaked in 2017, when 29 girls were given it, #4,778 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,862 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,503 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,833 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,993 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,344 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,441 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,932 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,415 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,778 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,934 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,786 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,382 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,292 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,978 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,696 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,124 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,346 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,925 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,402 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,740 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,910 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,126 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,118 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,393 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,510 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Noriah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Noriah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Noriah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Noriah, and how old are they?
An estimated 430 Americans named Noriah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 296 people named Noriah (284 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 304 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 232,354 babies since 1880, Noriah is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 7,874 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Noriah
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 Noriah and names like it
- Compare Noriah and NoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNoriah peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Noriah since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Noriah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Noriah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.