Given name & surname
Noriko
“one who upholds the law”
Noriko is used as a given name and a surname. One Japanese interpretation is “one who upholds the law.”
Original Japanese倫子
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “one who upholds the law.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1923. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Noriko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 160
- 0 boys · 160 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 1984. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,627 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Noriko’s family of names
Noriko has a related form in Nori. In Japanese usage, Noriko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of のりこ. In French usage, Noriko was borrowed from the Japanese form のりこ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 20
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 倫子original script · Japanese
- 矩子original script · Japanese
- 徳子original script · Japanese
- 埜利子original script · Japanese
- 乃理子original script · Japanese
- 能里子original script · Japanese
- 能理子original script · Japanese
- 乃里子original script · Japanese
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- 乃梨子original script · Japanese
- 範子original script · Japanese
- 法子original script · Japanese
- 記子original script · Japanese
- 紀子original script · Japanese
- 憲子original script · Japanese
- 規子original script · Japanese
- のりこoriginal script · Japanese
- 宜子original script · Japanese
- 典子original script · Japanese
- 実子original script · Japanese
- Noricolikely spelling
People named Noriko
- Noriko AnnoJapanese judokaborn 1976
- Noriko OharaJapanese voice actress (1935–2024)
- Noriko HidakaJapanese actress, voice actress and singerborn 1962
- Noriko SengeJapanese princess; second daughter of Norihito, Prince Takamado and Hisako, Princess Takamadoborn 1988
- Noriko SakaiJapanese actress and singerborn 1971
- Noriko MizoguchiJapanese judokaborn 1971
- Noriko NarazakiJapanese judokaborn 1972
- Noriko ShitayaJapanese voice actressborn 1982
- Noriko MatsudaJapanese volleyball playerborn 1952
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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