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Noreen vs Norwood

American parents have registered 20,108 Noreens since 1880, against 2,909 Norwoods. Noreen is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Noreen against Norwood, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Noreen Norwood

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 133 years in which either name was published, Noreen for 111 years and Norwood for 22 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Noreen Norwood
Total US births 20,1082,909
Most in one year 65479
Babies in 2025 33under 5
Estimated living today 14,000850
Median age today 6768
Peak year 19481921
Best rank 299th girls745th boys
Rank in 2025 4,265thunranked
First recorded 18921883
Girls / boys 20,108 / 00 / 2,909

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Noreen and Norwood.