Noretta
Last seen for girls in 1970 at #7,995
- Peak · girls
- 1937 · 65 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 381since 1914
Noretta over time
Rank among girls' names. Noretta has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #3,592 | 13 |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 |
| 1959 | #3,827 | 11 |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 |
| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 |
| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 |
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 |
| 1943 | #3,040 | 10 |
| 1942 | #2,416 | 14 |
| 1941 | #2,846 | 10 |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 |
| 1939 | #1,731 | 20 |
| 1938 | #1,288 | 32 |
| 1937 | #856 | 65 |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 |
| 1935 | #2,095 | 15 |
| 1934 | #3,159 | 8 |
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| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
| 1927 | #3,053 | 10 |
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 |
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| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 |
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| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 |
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| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 |
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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.
Where Noretta is popular in 1938
No state had 5 or more girls named Noretta in 1938, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Noretta
- 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)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1937 at #856 (65 births)
- Births halved by 1938, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1937
- 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%)
- 38.3% of all girls named Noretta (146) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,618 (1914) | #3,618 |
| 1920s | 33 | #3,053 (1927) | #4,222 |
| 1930s | 146 | #856 (1937) | #2,138 |
| 1940s | 87 | #2,416 (1942) | #3,530 |
| 1950s | 66 | #3,827 (1959) | #4,685 |
| 1960s | 39 | #3,592 (1962) | #5,461 |
| 1970s | 5 | #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 1938
Top girls' names in 1938
More about 1938
girls
1,103,456 girls got a published name in 1938; 1 in 34,483 of them was named Noretta, which outranked 74.2% of the 4,995 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,268Raymond33
- #1,268Teddy33
- #1,268Valarie33
- #1,288Noretta32
- #1,288Carl32
- #1,288Cherrie32
- #1,288Colene32
- #1,316Bunny31
- #1,316Carolene31
- #1,316Cinda31
Tied with 27 names at #1,288; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.