Norka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/norka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Norka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Nor + -ka.
- USUnited States1 in 618K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela1 in 8.3K
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (measured from records)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)
3,450 people
Highest-authority source
Venezuela
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Nor + -ka.
Sources 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Norka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | — | 3,450 | 1 in 8.3K | 3.5K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 538 | 1 in 618K | 536 | Norka | 147 |
| BR Brazil | — | 39 | 1 in 5.4M | 39 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 38 | 1 in 1.3M | 38 | Norka | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 7 | 1 in 728K | 7 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | 1 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #534 | — | — | — | Norka | 6 |
3,450 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Norka is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In csb, mink (semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, genitive/accusative singular of norok
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, Norwegian, female native of Norway
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Ūdele
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Norka Rouskayab. 1899CHSwiss dancer
- Norka López Zamarripab. 1961MXMexican lawyer
- Norka Latambletb. 1962CUvolleyball player
- Norka Ramírezb. 1968PEPeruvian actor
- Norka Pazb. 2000BOBolivian illustrator
- Norka Rocío Guillén PoncePEPeruvian doctor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 3.5K | #485 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 536 | #19,578 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 39 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 39 | #78,870 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 38 | #35,064 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 35 | #17,001 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 21 | #58,150 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #35,380 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 7 | #11,195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #19,578 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #592 |
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Norka mean, and where does it come from?
- From Nor + -ka. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Norka?
- A machine transcription gives /norka/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Norka a male or female name?
- Norka 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.
- In which country does Norka have the most bearers?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Norka, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Norka most common?
- Norka is densest in Venezuela, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Norka?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 3,450 people named Norka, about 1 in 8.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Norka compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Norka is the 534th most common given name of 1,886 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Norka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/norkaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Norka” — the 534th most common given name in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.