Noreen

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Noreen is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Kuwait it is the 68th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Urdu, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A diminutive of Nora, sometimes used as an independent name.

rarermore common
  • KWKuwait1 in 661◐
  • SESweden1 in 926
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈241K ●

across 11 countries

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
361 ●

1.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 283 ◐

Hungary

Spellings & scripts●

NoraLatin · Spanish●1.2M records
ᲜორაGeorgian · Georgian●7.4K records
НоринCyrillic · Russian●5.5K records
נוראHebrew · Hebrew●1.9K records
โนรThai · Thai●446 records
ኖራEthiopic · Amharic●26 records
ՆորաArmenian · Armenian●6 records
노린Hangul · Korean●3 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nora in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, PE Peru and 15 more, Норин in RU Russia and โนรี in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A diminutive of Nora, sometimes used as an independent name.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Noreen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#228639,624420K rec.—116Nora120
MX Mexico#268166,282122K rec.—5Nora171
US United States#898118,858302K rec.1 in 2.8K119KNoreen361
PE Peru#42078,67764K rec.——Nora58
PH Philippines#35661,10253K rec.——Nora81
CL Chile#26054,0363.1K rec.—1Nora66
VE Venezuela#51347,88919K rec.—563Nora50
HU Hungary—34,526△4 rec.1 in 28335K—2
EG Egypt#21923,6488.6K rec.——Nora95
FR France—23,515△9 rec.1 in 2.9K24K—5
ES Spain#41623,04514K rec.1 in 2.2K23KNora134
GB United Kingdom#72922,67522K rec.—549Noreen134

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Languages●

  • English232K73%
  • Urdu19K6%
  • Spanish12K4%
  • 7K2%
  • Arabic6K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English232,19073%
Urdu19,3026%
Spanish11,8584%
6,9932%
Arabic5,9652%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Noreen is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Urdu given name45K records spelled Noreen4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, United States, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written Nōreen, Noréen

  • a separate given name8.6K records spelled Noreen3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Noreén, Noréen

  • French given name4.6K records spelled Noreen3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Nōreen

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Noreen is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, ornamental name formed with norr ‘north’ -i- the adjectival suffix -een, variant of -en, a derivative of Latin -enius.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, variant of Nora; Irish diminutive

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  • Irish and English: originally an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Nóirín , a diminutive of Nóra (see NORA ). It is now used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world. Variants: Norene, Norine .

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0200400600800190019502000654 · 1948

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Noreen in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1892–2025
Yearrecords
18925
19037
19045
19056
19066
19078
19087
190911
191116
191214
191321
191437
191547
191652
191736
191855
191935
192037
192184
192278
192390
1924106
1925120
1926124
1927129
1928123
1929177
1930153
1931197
1932208
1933209
1934214
1935218
1936219
1937283
1938255
1939241
1940249
1941257
1942345
1943400
1944359
1945439
1946480
1947574
1948654
1949619
1950548
1951494
1952545
1953507
1954476
1955603
1956491
1957505
1958516
1959502
1960493
1961586
1962590
1963549
1964508
1965434
1966353
1967288
1968232
1969236
1970177
1971171
1972113
1973115
1974111
197581
197685
197776
197882
197967
198080
198172
198274
198365
198462
198557
198651
198754
198833
198944
199043
199138
199245
199335
199432
199528
199633
199733
199825
199926
200015
200128
200222
200329
200418
200523
200622
200719
200823
200928
201021
201120
201225
201319
201431
201526
201622
201735
201831
201928
202023
202123
202232
202321
202418
202533

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 123 years between 1892–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Noreen Gammill, b. 1898Noreen Branson, b. 1910Noreen Nash, b. 1924Noreen Riols, b. 1926Noreen Murray, b. 1935Noreen Corcoran, b. 1943Widdecombe, b. 1947Noreen Kokoruda, b. 1947Noreen Kershaw, b. 1950Noree Victoria, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 64 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Noreen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202016K#1,818
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020972#26,440
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010897#27,021
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000819#27,669
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—487#8,179
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—487#8,168
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—356#3,155
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—256#6,073
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—252#3,118
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—181#9,752
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—171#4,743
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—170#5,975

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 327 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Noreen?
We estimate roughly 241 thousand people bear Noreen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Noreen have the most bearers?
Noreen is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled nora.
Where is Noreen most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Noreen is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 283 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Noreen compared with other names?
In Argentina, Noreen is the 228th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Noreen a male or female name?
Noreen is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Noreen mean?
Recorded meaning: A diminutive of Nora, sometimes used as an independent name.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Noreen” — the 228th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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