Norbu
#11,614 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Norbu has been given to 29 babies in the U.S. since 2010. In 2025 it ranked #11,614 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Norbu, 2025
1 in 553,000
Norbu over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Norbu?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,614
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Norbu sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Norbu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Norbus were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Norbu was born before 2021 — so the typical Norbu is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 62.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 29
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 62.1% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Norbu rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 85.7%
- Peak was 2023 (7)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Norbu
Norbu is not the most common spelling — Corby is, with 33.8% against Norbu's 0.72%.
Norbu around the world
Where Norbu ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2018–2018#5,982in 2018
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Norbu by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Norbu
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Norbu
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.