Meaning not yet researched.
Norris: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #330 in 1924.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #330 in 1924; #6,063 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Norris in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,063 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1924, at #330.
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Norris: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #330 in 1924 · most boys in one year: 308 (1924).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Norris, making it the 6,063rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 325 places from #6,388 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 14 boys named Norris in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #330, reached in 1924. That year also had the most boys given the name: 308. For comparison, it was #4,660 in 2015 and #428 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Norris in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 12 babies with the name. In all, 16,979 US babies have been given the name, 3.1% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,709 babies named Norris.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 213 US boys were named Norris; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Noris and Noraiz 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Noris (126), Noraiz (25).
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 Norris 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 | — | — | 15 | #6,063 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,388 |
| 2023 | — | — | 17 | #5,601 |
| 2022 | — | — | 28 | #3,963 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,281 |
| 2020 | — | — | 19 | #4,985 |
| 2019 | — | — | 27 | #3,967 |
| 2018 | — | — | 24 | #4,314 |
| 2017 | — | — | 34 | #3,359 |
| 2016 | — | — | 17 | #5,484 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,660 |
| 2014 | — | — | 35 | #3,198 |
| 2013 | — | — | 17 | #5,333 |
| 2012 | — | — | 25 | #4,096 |
| 2011 | — | — | 22 | #4,465 |
| 2010 | — | — | 25 | #4,075 |
| 2009 | — | — | 17 | #5,480 |
| 2008 | — | — | 25 | #4,110 |
| 2007 | — | — | 32 | #3,428 |
| 2006 | — | — | 20 | #4,636 |
| 2005 | — | — | 24 | #3,905 |
| 2004 | — | — | 36 | #2,868 |
| 2003 | — | — | 30 | #3,172 |
| 2002 | — | — | 27 | #3,317 |
| 2001 | — | — | 40 | #2,466 |
| 2000 | — | — | 33 | #2,788 |
| 1999 | — | — | 34 | #2,597 |
| 1998 | — | — | 43 | #2,145 |
| 1997 | — | — | 42 | #2,120 |
| 1996 | — | — | 44 | #2,008 |
| 1995 | — | — | 42 | #2,012 |
| 1994 | — | — | 52 | #1,727 |
| 1993 | — | — | 62 | #1,506 |
| 1992 | — | — | 55 | #1,618 |
| 1991 | — | — | 57 | #1,543 |
| 1990 | — | — | 69 | #1,348 |
| 1989 | — | — | 69 | #1,325 |
| 1988 | — | — | 82 | #1,104 |
| 1987 | — | — | 71 | #1,137 |
| 1986 | — | — | 70 | #1,132 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,921 | 71 | #1,106 |
| 1984 | — | — | 77 | #1,018 |
| 1983 | — | — | 85 | #963 |
| 1982 | — | — | 71 | #1,087 |
| 1981 | — | — | 78 | #1,032 |
| 1980 | — | — | 81 | #1,008 |
| 1979 | — | — | 88 | #943 |
| 1978 | — | — | 92 | #899 |
| 1977 | — | — | 86 | #916 |
| 1976 | — | — | 76 | #961 |
| 1975 | — | — | 91 | #872 |
| 1974 | — | — | 92 | #840 |
| 1973 | — | — | 96 | #807 |
| 1972 | — | — | 94 | #831 |
| 1971 | — | — | 136 | #710 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,913 | 111 | #781 |
| 1969 | — | — | 124 | #705 |
| 1968 | — | — | 122 | #683 |
| 1967 | — | — | 129 | #657 |
| 1966 | — | — | 116 | #690 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,165 | 154 | #618 |
| 1964 | — | — | 159 | #620 |
| 1963 | — | — | 188 | #576 |
| 1962 | — | — | 221 | #536 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,174 | 251 | #501 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,557 | 246 | #507 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,766 | 235 | #512 |
| 1958 | — | — | 227 | #514 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,258 | 268 | #477 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,722 | 283 | #450 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,068 | 288 | #432 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,551 | 244 | #466 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,150 | 291 | #413 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,381 | 286 | #407 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,704 | 254 | #427 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,222 | 244 | #428 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,813 | 239 | #434 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,798 | 233 | #438 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,934 | 251 | #430 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,823 | 241 | #410 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,563 | 215 | #411 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,905 | 208 | #421 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,528 | 241 | #394 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,368 | 225 | #408 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,632 | 219 | #389 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,689 | 205 | #401 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,343 | 202 | #402 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,214 | 252 | #350 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,688 | 232 | #353 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,235 | 248 | #347 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,882 | 266 | #335 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,399 | 240 | #354 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,643 | 251 | #336 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,989 | 256 | #346 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,390 | 264 | #334 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,524 | 228 | #377 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,162 | 230 | #381 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,381 | 234 | #385 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,230 | 260 | #364 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,673 | 230 | #388 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,297 | 281 | #351 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,485 | 308 | #330 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,434 | 267 | #364 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,726 | 260 | #375 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,599 | 290 | #350 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,823 | 228 | #394 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,950 | 200 | #413 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,381 | 226 | #396 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,289 | 183 | #418 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,827 | 203 | #389 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,068 | 184 | #397 |
| 1914 | — | — | 150 | #388 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,091 | 119 | #392 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,300 | 104 | #379 |
| 1911 | — | — | 47 | #423 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,080 | 48 | #373 |
| 1909 | — | — | 40 | #381 |
| 1908 | — | — | 39 | #371 |
| 1907 | — | — | 28 | #443 |
| 1906 | — | — | 26 | #438 |
| 1905 | — | — | 12 | #730 |
| 1904 | — | — | 25 | #426 |
| 1903 | — | — | 14 | #610 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,967 | 14 | #608 |
| 1901 | — | — | 17 | #484 |
| 1900 | — | — | 18 | #597 |
| 1899 | — | — | 15 | #515 |
| 1898 | — | — | 14 | #595 |
| 1897 | — | — | 19 | #450 |
| 1896 | — | — | 13 | #621 |
| 1895 | — | — | 14 | #572 |
| 1894 | — | — | 13 | #587 |
| 1893 | — | — | 15 | #498 |
| 1892 | — | — | 14 | #565 |
| 1891 | — | — | 13 | #518 |
| 1890 | — | — | 16 | #477 |
| 1889 | — | — | 12 | #573 |
| 1888 | — | — | 14 | #545 |
| 1887 | — | — | 8 | #727 |
| 1886 | — | — | 9 | #679 |
| 1885 | — | — | 12 | #570 |
| 1884 | — | — | 18 | #444 |
| 1883 | — | — | 11 | #581 |
| 1882 | — | — | 10 | #635 |
| 1881 | — | — | 14 | #480 |
| 1880 | — | — | 12 | #554 |
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).