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Noreta

Noreta reached its high-water mark in 1937 at number 964, and has been recorded 91 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1942. About 30 Noretas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 88.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Noreta

By the numbers

Total US births
91
Estimated living today
30
Median age today
88
Peak year
1937
Best rank
964th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1935

How old the living Noretas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 91 babies given the name since 1935, about 30 are alive — 35 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1937 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 Noreta is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1937

The most popular girls’ names the year Noreta peaked:

All the names of 1937

Related names

Noreta 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.