Noris
Noris was last recorded in 1990, when 6 babies were given it; 126 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Noris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Noris mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Noris is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “a northerner” (norreis).
from Old French norreis (“a northerner”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Noris?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,288, in 1985; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1924, the peak
Noris peaked in 1924, when 9 boys were given it, #3,185 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 6 | #12,446 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #6,288 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,623 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,907 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,208 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,727 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,943 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,238 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,226 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #4,200 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | under 5 | 5 | #3,861 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 8 | #2,923 | |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,913 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 5 | #4,161 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 5 | #4,375 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 5 | #4,562 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 6 | #4,064 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #4,056 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 9 | #3,185 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,702 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 8 | #3,413 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Noris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 126 Americans recorded as Noris, 38% are girls and 62% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Noris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Noris, and how old are they?
An estimated 55 Americans named Noris 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 1,562 people named Noris (1,365 women and girls, 197 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 63 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24.8 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 17,105 babies since 1880, Noris is the second most given (<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 Noris and names like it
- Compare Noris and NorrisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sNoris peaked in 1924.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Noris: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Noris.
- Names starting with NMost given first.