Norris
Norris is a boy's name that peaked in 1924, when it was the 330th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 5,861st. About 7,400 Norrises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Norris boys named Norris
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 16,979
- Estimated living today
- 7,400
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 330th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,861st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 523 / 16,456
How old the living Norrises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 16,979 babies given the name since 1880, about 7,400 are alive — 44 in every hundred. Roughly 400 of them are children and 3,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
An Anglo-Norman surname, from Old French norreis (“a northerner, a migrant from the north”). More at French norois.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Norriss
- Henry Norris Russell (1877–1957)American astronomer
- Norris Cole (born 1988)American basketball player
- Richard Norris Williams (1891–1968)American tennis player
- Norris Bradbury (1909–1997)American physicist
- Norris Graham (1906–1980)American rower
- Norris Bowden (1926–1991)Canadian figure skater
People named Norris with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Norris is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Norris is most concentrated in Louisiana (5.5×), Mississippi (3.8×), Georgia (3.2×), North Carolina (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular boys’ names the year Norris peaked:
Norris elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Norris | 10 | 5,142nd |
| England and Wales boys | Norris | 6 | 4,789th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Norris against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.