Norris
Norris is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 330th, in 1924.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1924308 births
- Best rank
- #330in 1924
- Since 1880
- 16,964people given the name
The story in the numbers
16,441 boys have been named Norris in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 308 births.
The name has all but left use: 14 births in 2024, against 308 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1950s alone account for 16%. It has spent 101 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 523 girls have also been given it, 3.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Norris | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 120 | |
| 1890s | 146 | |
| 1900s | 233 | |
| 1910s | 1,464 | |
| 1920s | 2,588 | |
| 1930s | 2,440 | |
| 1940s | 2,276 | |
| 1950s | 2,620 | |
| 1960s | 1,710 | |
| 1970s | 962 | |
| 1980s | 755 | |
| 1990s | 500 | |
| 2000s | 284 | |
| 2010s | 247 | |
| 2020s | 96 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Norris was the 330th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Norris
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gilbertpeak 1930
- Alvinpeak 1927
- Leonardpeak 1921
- Myronpeak 1930
- Garlandpeak 1922
- Raymondpeak 1924
- Rolandpeak 1924
- Delbertpeak 1932
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.