girls:
523 births since 1902
#5193 (9th percentile)
boys:
16.4k births since 1880
#903 (80th percentile)
overall:
16.9k births since 1880
#1982 (74th percentile)
The name Norris is the #1,982 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,949 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 74.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #903 (80.3% percentile) for all time with 16,426 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,193 (9.1% percentile) for all time with 523 births since 1902.
Norris has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1902 for girls).
The name Norris has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Norris reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 43.8% percentile (ranked #312) with 263 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 263 births per million (ranked 43.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Norris ranks #899 for boys (1.3% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 3.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Norris reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #556) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Norris".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Norris. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Norris is pronounced as NAW-rihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NAW-rees, at 7.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like N AO1 R IH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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