Noretta

Last seen for girls in 1970 at #7,995

Peak · girls
1937 · 65 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
381
since 1914

Noretta over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Noretta has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201937peak #856, 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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1970#7,9955
1969#6,6176
1968#7,0165
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1962#3,59213
1961#5,3097
1960#4,7738
1959#3,82711
1958#5,4086
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1956#3,91010
1955#4,7407
1954#3,9679
1953#5,6735
1952#4,9086
1951#5,4145
1950#4,3157
1949#5,2445
1948#4,2057
1947#3,24011
1946#3,9947
1945#3,6767
1944#3,1399
1943#3,04010
1942#2,41614
1941#2,84610
1940#3,5037
1939#1,73120
1938#1,28832
1937#85665
1936#3,7016
1935#2,09515
1934#3,1598
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1928#4,7255
1927#3,05310
1926#3,8737
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1924#5,0615
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1920#4,3986
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First appearance
1914

The first year at least five girls were named Noretta! It came in at #3,618, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1914–1919, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Noretta
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1970
  • Biggest jump: 2,845 spots in 1937 (#3,701#856)
  • Biggest drop: 432 spots in 1938 (#856#1,288)
Rise & fade · girls
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1914
  • Peaked 1937 at #856 (65 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 16,370
  • Highest: 1 in 16,370 girls born in 1937 were named Noretta (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 349,629 girls born in 1970 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1930s
  • 38.3% of all girls named Noretta (146) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s5#3,618 (1914)#3,618
1920s33#3,053 (1927)#4,222
1930s146#856 (1937)#2,138
1940s87#2,416 (1942)#3,530
1950s66#3,827 (1959)#4,685
1960s39#3,592 (1962)#5,461
1970s5#7,995 (1970)#7,995

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.

Noretta in 1937

girls
#856
65 births · 1 in 16,370 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. #856Noretta65
More about 1937

girls

1,064,033 girls got a published name in 1937; 1 in 16,370 of them was named Noretta, which outranked 82.6% 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 Noretta
  1. #850Raquel66
  2. #850Sherrie66
  3. #850Thomas66
  4. #856Noretta65
  5. #856Deann65
  6. #856Karlene65
  7. #856Karolyn65
  8. #862Dena64
  9. #862Leonor64
  10. #862Myrtice64

Tied with 5 names at #856; 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