How Many People Are Named Nori?

3,218

people named Nori are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 106,210 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,272 babies named Nori in Social Security records from 1950 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,926

๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,774

See the top 100

Peak Year

2023

322 births

Trend

โ†’

Stable (last 10 years)

๐Ÿ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Japanese
Pronunciation: NO-แน˜EE
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

From Japanese ๅ„€ (nori) meaning "ceremony, rites" or other kanji which are pronounced the same way.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

โšง Gender Distribution

Female
92.5%
Male
7.5%

Of the babies given the name Nori, 92.5% were girls and 7.5% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1960s: 100% of the babies were girls then and 90.6% in the 2020s.

๐Ÿ‘ฅ Age Distribution

The average person named Nori alive today is about 11 years old, and 90% are under 30. Half of them were between 2 and 10 in 2025.

Under 30 2,892
89.9%
30 to 59 190
5.9%
60 and over 135
4.2%

๐Ÿ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Nori first appears in the records in 1950 and was given most often in 2023, to 322 babies. In 2025, 224 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1950 to 2025

๐Ÿ† Rank History

Nori has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #898, in 2023. In 2025 it ranked #1,196.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,196
Best rank#898 (2023)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,029 in the 2020s

๐Ÿ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Nori alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Nori were born in New York than in any other state: about 191 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Nori was given 4.5 times as often in Maryland, 2.8 times in Georgia and 2.4 times in Virginia.

New York 191
Georgia 182
California 182
Texas 182
Pennsylvania 152
North Carolina 138
Maryland 137
Virginia 116
Florida 106
Illinois 79
New Jersey 73
Ohio 59
Louisiana 43
Tennessee 41
Michigan 28
District of Columbia 21
Alabama 16
Massachusetts 15
Connecticut 13
Indiana 12
Missouri 12
South Carolina 12
Utah 11
Mississippi 11
Minnesota 11
Wisconsin 10
Arizona 7
Colorado 6
Arkansas 5
Washington 5

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