Meaning not yet researched.
Noreen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #299 in 1948.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #299 in 1948; #4,327 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Noreen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,327 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1948, at #299.
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Noreen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 girls in 2025. Peak: #299 in 1948 · most girls in one year: 654 (1948).
In 2025, 33 US girls were named Noreen, making it the 4,327th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,256 places from #6,583 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 18 girls named Noreen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #299, reached in 1948. That year also had the most girls given the name: 654. For comparison, it was #5,260 in 2015 and #327 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Noreen in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 5 babies. In all, 20,108 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 5,187 babies named Noreen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 266 US girls were named Noreen; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,705 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Norine (5,242 babies since 1880) and Norene (4,790 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Norrin, Noreene and Noran are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Irish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Norrin (164), Noreene (149), Noran (48), Norean (38), Noureen (37), Norrene (23), Nureen (17), Norann (11), Norian (11), Nooreen (10), Norreen (6), Noren (5), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Noreen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,327 | — | — |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,583 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,899 | — | — |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,442 | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,519 | — | — |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,444 | — | — |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,870 | — | — |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,536 | — | — |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,203 | — | — |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,935 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,260 | — | — |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,625 | — | — |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,661 | — | — |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,520 | — | — |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,508 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,330 | — | — |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,193 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,090 | — | — |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,023 | — | — |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,077 | — | — |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,560 | — | — |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,691 | — | — |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,501 | — | — |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,406 | — | — |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,414 | — | — |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,061 | — | — |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,416 | — | — |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,464 | — | — |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,517 | — | — |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,484 | — | — |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,850 | — | — |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,512 | — | — |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,270 | — | — |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,025 | — | — |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,598 | — | — |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,077 | — | — |
| 1987 | 54 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 1985 | 57 | #1,940 | — | — |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1983 | 65 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 1981 | 72 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1980 | 80 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1978 | 82 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1977 | 76 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1976 | 85 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1975 | 81 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1974 | 111 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1973 | 115 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1972 | 113 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1971 | 171 | #816 | — | — |
| 1970 | 177 | #794 | — | — |
| 1969 | 236 | #648 | — | — |
| 1968 | 232 | #634 | — | — |
| 1967 | 288 | #556 | — | — |
| 1966 | 353 | #500 | — | — |
| 1965 | 434 | #458 | — | — |
| 1964 | 508 | #434 | — | — |
| 1963 | 549 | #410 | — | — |
| 1962 | 590 | #390 | — | — |
| 1961 | 586 | #401 | — | — |
| 1960 | 493 | #441 | — | — |
| 1959 | 502 | #426 | — | — |
| 1958 | 516 | #409 | — | — |
| 1957 | 505 | #412 | — | — |
| 1956 | 491 | #409 | — | — |
| 1955 | 603 | #352 | — | — |
| 1954 | 476 | #399 | — | — |
| 1953 | 507 | #380 | — | — |
| 1952 | 545 | #352 | — | — |
| 1951 | 494 | #361 | — | — |
| 1950 | 548 | #327 | — | — |
| 1949 | 619 | #313 | — | — |
| 1948 | 654 | #299 | — | — |
| 1947 | 574 | #331 | — | — |
| 1946 | 480 | #341 | — | — |
| 1945 | 439 | #329 | — | — |
| 1944 | 359 | #372 | — | — |
| 1943 | 400 | #358 | — | — |
| 1942 | 345 | #383 | — | — |
| 1941 | 257 | #427 | — | — |
| 1940 | 249 | #432 | — | — |
| 1939 | 241 | #435 | — | — |
| 1938 | 255 | #420 | — | — |
| 1937 | 283 | #387 | — | — |
| 1936 | 219 | #436 | — | — |
| 1935 | 218 | #439 | — | — |
| 1934 | 214 | #445 | — | — |
| 1933 | 209 | #450 | — | — |
| 1932 | 208 | #454 | — | — |
| 1931 | 197 | #461 | — | — |
| 1930 | 153 | #552 | — | — |
| 1929 | 177 | #508 | — | — |
| 1928 | 123 | #636 | — | — |
| 1927 | 129 | #630 | — | — |
| 1926 | 124 | #650 | — | — |
| 1925 | 120 | #678 | — | — |
| 1924 | 106 | #722 | — | — |
| 1923 | 90 | #772 | — | — |
| 1922 | 78 | #834 | — | — |
| 1921 | 84 | #801 | — | — |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1918 | 55 | #976 | — | — |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1916 | 52 | #957 | — | — |
| 1915 | 47 | #977 | — | — |
| 1914 | 37 | #981 | — | — |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,264 | — | — |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,603 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).