Norman
Norman is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 148 births. Its best rank was 36th, in 1931.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1480.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19285,590 births
- Best rank
- #36in 1931
- Since 1880
- 254,586people given the name
The story in the numbers
252,984 boys have been named Norman in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 5,590 births — 0.50% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 148 births in 2024, against 5,590 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1930s alone account for 20%. It has spent 126 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 63 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,602 girls have also been given it, 0.63% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Norman | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,235 | |
| 1890s | 1,891 | |
| 1900s | 3,178 | |
| 1910s | 25,033 | |
| 1920s | 49,364 | |
| 1930s | 49,987 | |
| 1940s | 42,164 | |
| 1950s | 33,749 | |
| 1960s | 22,753 | |
| 1970s | 9,885 | |
| 1980s | 5,853 | |
| 1990s | 3,439 | |
| 2000s | 2,068 | |
| 2010s | 1,589 | |
| 2020s | 796 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Norman was the 39th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1928 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Norman
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gordonpeak 1952
- Delbertpeak 1932
- Melvinpeak 1928
- Lylepeak 1922
- Arnoldpeak 1924
- Marvinpeak 1928
- Rolandpeak 1924
- Lowellpeak 1931
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.