Norberta
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Female form of Norbert; 'north' + 'bright'
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/norbeɾta/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Norberta is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- MXMexico≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 26K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Female form of Norbert; 'north' + 'bright'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Where in the world
(measured from records)Norberta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | — | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 70 | Norberta | 57 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Norberta | 15 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 3 | Norberta | 25 |
| US United States | — | 919 | 1 in 362K | 912 | Norberta | 92 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Norberta | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 659 | 1 in 26K | 653 | — | 3 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Norberta | 4 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Norberta | 7 |
| TL Timor-Leste | #497 | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 239K | — | Norberta | 4 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)Norberta 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 French, Féminin de Norbert. Germanic: nord + berht, « brillant ». Fête avec Norbert, le 6 juin.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In English, Old German; blond hero.
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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)- Caridad la Negrab. 1879ESnot in their usual nameSpanish prostitute and madam (1879-1960)
- Georgina von Wilczekb. 1921ATnot in their usual namePrincess consort of Liechtenstein
- Norberta Lópezb. 1937PYParaguayan basketball player
- Norberta Díaz Azuarab. 1948MXMexican politician
- Princess Nora, Marchioness of Mariñob. 1950LInot in their usual nameLiechtensteiner Princier
- Lídia Norberta dos Santos Martinsb. 1980TLpolitician
- Norberta da Cruz dos Santosb. 2001TLTimorese athletics competitor
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)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Norberta mean, and where does it come from?
- Female form of Norbert; 'north' + 'bright'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- How do you pronounce Norberta?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /norbeɾta/; in Portuguese /nɔɾbɛɾtɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Norberta a male or female name?
- Norberta is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Venezuela (asosab) and Spain (INE), among others.
- In which country does Norberta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.2 thousand people named Norberta in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled norberta.
- How common is the name Norberta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 919 people named Norberta in 2020, about 1 in 362 thousand residents.
- How common is Norberta compared with other names?
- In Timor-Leste, Norberta is the 497th most common given name of 751 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Norberta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/norbertaThe 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, “Norberta” — the 497th most common given name in Timor-Leste. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.