Noreta

Last seen for girls in 1942 at #4,622

Peak · girls
1937 · 52 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
91
since 1935

Noreta over time

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Rank among girls' names. Noreta has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201937peak #964, 1937girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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First appearance
1935

The first year at least five girls were named Noreta! It came in at #3,431, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1940–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Noreta
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1942
  • Biggest jump: 3,217 spots in 1937 (#4,181#964)
  • Biggest drop: 1,261 spots in 1938 (#964#2,225)
Rise & fade · girls
2 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1935
  • Peaked 1937 at #964 (52 births)
  • Births halved by 1938, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1937
Share of babies · girls
1 in 20,462
  • Highest: 1 in 20,462 girls born in 1937 were named Noreta (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 270,144 girls born in 1942 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1930s
  • 94.5% of all girls named Noreta (86) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s86#964 (1937)#2,789
1940s5#4,622 (1942)#4,622

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Noreta in 1937

girls
#964
52 births · 1 in 20,462 girls

Top girls' names in 1937

  1. #1Mary55,641
  2. #2Barbara34,917
  3. #3Patricia26,838
  4. #4Shirley26,823
  5. #5Betty25,337
  6. #6Carol17,336
  7. #7Nancy17,074
  8. #8Dorothy16,572
  9. #9Joan15,301
  10. #10Margaret15,144
  11. #964Noreta52
More about 1937

girls

1,064,033 girls got a published name in 1937; 1 in 20,462 of them was named Noreta, which outranked 80.4% of the 4,930 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Noreta
  1. #950Nova53
  2. #950Rosanna53
  3. #950Verlene53
  4. #964Noreta52
  5. #964Abbie52
  6. #964Ardell52
  7. #964Concepcion52
  8. #981Armida51
  9. #981Dean51
  10. #981Gerald51

Tied with 16 names at #964; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1936
Risers
  1. 3,217Noreta#4,181#964
  2. 2,845Noretta#3,701#856
  3. 2,351Leilani#3,103#752
  4. 1,407Deann#2,263#856
  5. 1,209Norita#1,741#532
Fallers
  1. 438Dorla#951#1,389
  2. 331Vilma#951#1,282
  3. 303Imelda#979#1,282
  4. 297Lulu#695#992
  5. 292Lyda#840#1,132

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1937