Norita
Norita was a Japanese optical manufacturer. Founded in 1951 by Toshio Norita, it originally made lenses for binoculars but moved on to prisms and thence pentaprisms for SLR cameras.
Meaning & Origin of Norita
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Norita was a Japanese optical manufacturer. Founded in 1951 by Toshio Norita, it originally made lenses for binoculars but moved on to prisms and thence pentaprisms for SLR cameras.
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The Story of Norita
The earliest SSA record of Norita as a baby girl name dates back to 1918, when 5 babies received it. 1937 was its biggest year on record, with 155 newborns named Norita — #532 in the national rankings. About 45% of every Norita on record arrived during the 1930s, its defining decade. Norita last appeared in the published SSA data in 1993, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 799 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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About the name Norita
Norita is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1918 and has accumulated 799 births in the dataset. Norita's peak popularity came in 1937 when it ranked #532. Use the chart and map above to compare Norita's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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