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Noreen vs Norvin

American parents have registered 20,108 Noreens since 1880, against 964 Norvins. Noreen is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Noreen Norvin

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

Noreen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1892 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1913, when Noreen had 21 and Norvin had 15.

Side by side

  Noreen Norvin
Total US births 20,108964
Most in one year 65429
Babies in 2025 336
Estimated living today 14,000360
Median age today 6759
Peak year 19481918
Best rank 299th girls1,313th boys
Rank in 2025 4,265th10,695th
First recorded 18921911
Girls / boys 20,108 / 00 / 964

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Noreens alive today are over 67; half the Norvins are over 59. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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