Norr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably an ornamental name from norr ‘north’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Norr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 785K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 42K
- FIFinland1 in 114K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nörr in DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
probably an ornamental name from norr ‘north’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Norr 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Norr | 3 |
| US United States | 424 | 1 in 785K | 424 | Norr | 171 |
| SE Sweden | 242 | 1 in 42K | 242 | Norr | 17 |
| DE Germany | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 683K | — | Nörr | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 778K | 5 | Norr | 24 |
| FI Finland | 49 | 1 in 114K | 49 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 30 | 1 in 182K | 30 | — | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Norr | 3 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Norr is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, 3. Perhaps a respelling of German Knorr.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, north; one of the four major compass points
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 424 | #49,546 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 417 | #53,526 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 382 | #51,233 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 242 | #3,553 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 49 | #23,195 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #35,412 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 20 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Norr mean, and where does it come from?
- probably an ornamental name from norr ‘north’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Norr?
- In the etymology graph, Öster is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Norr?
- A machine transcription gives /nɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Norr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Norr in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled norr.
- Where is Norr most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Norr is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Norr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 424 people named Norr in 2010, about 1 in 785 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Norr?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/norrThe 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, “Norr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.