Norita
Norita was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 799 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Norita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Norita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,084, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
155 babies in 1937, the peak
Norita peaked in 1937, when 155 girls were given it, #532 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #15,084 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,351 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,031 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,700 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,406 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,032 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,309 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,345 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,652 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,639 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 6 | #6,387 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,548 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,922 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,474 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,571 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,936 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,457 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,906 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,927 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,117 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,412 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,151 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,649 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,867 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,595 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,293 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,391 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,819 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,871 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,903 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,526 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,181 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,880 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 34 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 47 | #1,051 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 155 | #532 | 0.15 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,783 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 89 | #713 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,707 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,098 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,950 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,391 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,196 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,814 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,330 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,820 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,378 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Norita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Norita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Norita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Norita, and how old are they?
An estimated 397 Americans named Norita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 65 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 645 people named Norita (644 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 506 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,271 babies since 1880, Norita is the most given (63% 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 Norita
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 Norita and names like it
- Compare Norita and NorettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sNorita peaked in 1937.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Norita since 1910.
- The top names of 1937The year the most babies were named Norita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Norita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.