Norris

Norris is the 364th most common surname in the United States, shared by 84,956 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,518.

By the numbers

People: 84,956
Rank: 364th
How common: 1 in 3,518
Per 100,000: 28.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

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.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Norris described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 77.2%
Black, not Hispanic 13.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Norris

Lando Norris (born 1999)British and Belgian racing driver
Dean Norris (born 1963)American actor
Frank Norris (1870–1902)American journalist and novelist
Lee Norris (born 1981)American actor
Aaron Norris (born 1951)American film producer, director and actor
George W. Norris (1861–1944)American politician
Anthony Norris (1869–1951)British tennis player
Kathleen Norris (1880–1966)American writer

People named Norris with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Norris

Also a first name

Norris has been given to 16,979 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1924. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.