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Nori

#1,196 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Ceremony, rites

Nori has been given to 3,272 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #1,196 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 298 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.

Babies named Nori, 2025

1 in 17,200

Nori over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Nori over time

In 2025, Nori went to 86% girls and 14% boys.

19502025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Nori: meaning, origin, and history

Ceremony, rites

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nori means

Nori means “ceremony, rites”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,028 girls were recorded with the name Nori between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 298 in 2023; its best national rank was #898 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,176 in 2020 to #1,196 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,605 in 2015 to #1,196 in 2025.

In the United States, 244 boys were recorded with the name Nori between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,625 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,625 in 2020 to #3,631 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,517 in 2015 to #3,631 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Nori?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,200
193 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,330
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,196
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,907 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nori sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,907 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nori. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Noris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nori was born before 2019 — so the typical Nori is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
48.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,028
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 48.9% of all recorded uses (1,482).

Is Nori 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
−180
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−20
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+409
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.8%
Peak was 2023 (298)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#898
2023

Spellings of Nori

Nori is not the most common spelling — Doris is, with 16.7% against Nori's 0.11%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Nori is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Nori was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 1,333 girls, against 1 in 7,150 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

275 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 1,333
  2. 2Maryland1 in 1,695
  3. 3Georgia1 in 2,703
  4. 4Virginia1 in 3,125
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 3,704
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 4,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 4,348
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 5,263

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Nori is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Nori was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 760,998 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nori has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nori around the world

Where Nori 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.

  • England & Wales
    2015–2025
    #1,809
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2023–2023
    #749
    in 2023
  • France
    2023–2025
    #5,796
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Nori

People whose public names include Nori, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Nori by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,196
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 20
Best rank ever
#898
2023
Peak year
2023
298 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,028
Count in 2025
193

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,631
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6
Best rank ever
#3,625
2020
Peak year
2025
31 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
244
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Nori

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Nori

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nori, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Nori

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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