Noriko
given name · Japanese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Noriko is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 48th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Japanese name; meaning varies by characters.
- JPJapan1 in 980◐
- USUnited States1 in 127K
- SGSingapore1 in 118K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.1K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 193 ●
- 1 in 127K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
77K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
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●
Japanese name; meaning varies by characters
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #48 | 73,752 | 65K rec. | — | — | Noriko | 149 |
| US United States | — | 2,619 | 11K rec. | 1 in 127K | 2.6K | Noriko | 193 |
| CA Canada | — | 424 | 416 rec. | — | — | Noriko | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 400 | 365 rec. | — | listed | Noriko | 40 |
| BR Brazil | — | 299 | — | 1 in 708K | 350 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | — | 194 | 116 rec. | — | — | Noriko | 36 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 119 | 47 rec. | — | listed | Noriko | 35 |
| SG Singapore | — | 91 | 88 rec. | — | — | Noriko | 14 |
| PE Peru | — | 90 | 35 rec. | — | — | Noriko | 15 |
| PH Philippines | — | 70 | 49 rec. | — | — | Noriko | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 50 | 26 rec. | 1 in 1M | 50 | — | 11 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 49 | 51 rec. | — | — | Noriko | 3 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Japanese86K72%
- English19K16%
- Portuguese5.9K5%
- Spanish3K2%
- German1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 85,874 | 72% |
| English | 18,860 | 16% |
| Portuguese | 5,853 | 5% |
| Spanish | 2,976 | 2% |
| German | 1,011 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Noriko 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 German, weibl. Vom. japanischer Herkunft (japan. nori »Gesetz« + japan. ko »Kind«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
‘Child of principles’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Bambina della legge
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1923 | 6 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 7 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1974 | 9 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 9 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1984 | 11 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2016 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 25 years between 1923–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Noriko Awayab. 1907JPJapanese singer (1907–1999)
- Noriko Honmab. 1911JPJapanese actress
- Noriko Sengokub. 1922JPJapanese actress (1922-2012)
- Noriko Ibaragib. 1926JPJapanese poet and writer
- Ohara Norikob. 1935JPJapanese voice actress (1935–2024)
- Noriko Ishiharab. 1938JPJapanese novelist (1938-2022)
- Noriko Tatsumib. 1947JPJapanese actress
- Noriko Hiraokab. 1959JPJapanese impresario
- Noriko Hidakab. 1962JPJapanese actress, voice actress and singer
- Noriko Eguchib. 1980JPJapanese actress
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 38 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,169 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 350 | #9,551 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 318 | #19,032 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 299 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 292 | #19,102 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 269 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 267 | #29,065 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 191 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 131 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 78 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 62 | #7,372 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 60 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 142 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Noriko?
- We estimate roughly 3.1 thousand people bear Noriko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Noriko have the most bearers?
- Noriko is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled noriko.
- How common is Noriko compared with other names?
- In Japan, Noriko is the 48th most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
- Is Noriko a male or female name?
- Noriko 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 Noriko mean?
- Recorded meaning: Japanese name; meaning varies by characters
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About this data
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, “Noriko” — the 48th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.