In 2025, 193 US girls were named Nori, making it the 1,196th most common girls’ name of the year, down 180 places from #1,016 in 2024. That is 58 fewer than the 251 girls named Nori in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #898, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 298. For comparison, it was #1,605 in 2015 and #5,127 in 1950.
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Nori, making it the 3,632nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,198 places from #4,830 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 21 boys named Nori in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,628, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 31, in 2025. For comparison, it was #8,522 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nori in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 6 babies. In all, 3,272 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 7.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,635 babies named Nori.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,213 US girls were named Nori; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 298. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,328 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nori ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #419 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nuri (1,674 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nuria, Noriah and Norie are summarised on this page.