Norine

Where Norine comes from

Norine hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1883
    First appearance
    #920 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1912
    Peak, #615
    64 babies named Norine — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1951
    Norine Braithwaite born
    British middle- and long-distance runner
  4. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,212.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Norine Hammond · American politician in Illinois
  • Norine Braithwaite · British middle- and long-distance runner, born 1951

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.