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How popular is “Norma” in the USA?

Number of people named “Norma” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Norma” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Norma” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Norma” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Norma” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Norma” by birth year

This chart shows how “Norma” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 32 0.000158822 32 100%
1881 26 0.000134933 26 100%
1882 32 0.000144448 32 100%
1883 49 0.000225863 49 100%
1884 42 0.000172512 42 100%
1885 51 0.000211747 51 100%
1886 72 0.000282003 72 100%
1887 77 0.000311247 77 100%
1888 101 0.000337258 101 100%
1889 108 0.000373772 108 100%
1890 134 0.00044459 134 100%
1891 127 0.000443013 127 100%
1892 190 0.000568226 190 100%
1893 189 0.00058114 189 100%
1894 174 0.000513744 174 100%
1895 219 0.000623896 219 100%
1896 197 0.000551074 197 100%
1897 200 0.00057644 200 100%
1898 241 0.000631791 241 100%
1899 214 0.000630833 214 100%
1900 316 0.00070182 316 100%
1901 264 0.000763421 264 100%
1902 277 0.000716256 277 100%
1903 311 0.000815845 311 100%
1904 281 0.000696432 281 100%
1905 311 0.000733626 311 100%
1906 332 0.000774884 332 100%
1907 375 0.000805776 375 100%
1908 436 0.000892256 430 6 97%
1909 438 0.000856767 438 100%
1910 486 0.000822737 486 100%
1911 531 0.000824178 531 100%
1912 806 0.000815738 800 6 99%
1913 878 0.000772133 878 100%
1914 1172 0.000827483 1172 100%
1915 1737 0.000947924 1737 100%
1916 1927 0.000996166 1921 6 99%
1917 2133 0.001062913 2123 10 99%
1918 2667 0.001228403 2653 14 99%
1919 3206 0.001519255 3199 7 100%
1920 3958 0.001749282 3949 9 100%
1921 5118 0.002192328 5102 16 99%
1922 5250 0.002293422 5238 12 100%
1923 5904 0.002564191 5885 19 99%
1924 6560 0.002754439 6542 18 99%
1925 6965 0.00298504 6941 24 99%
1926 7554 0.003290206 7528 26 99%
1927 8023 0.003459147 7997 26 99%
1928 8196 0.003625044 8165 31 99%
1929 7933 0.003618804 7894 39 99%
1930 8551 0.003846105 8511 40 99%
1931 8796 0.004179838 8759 37 99%
1932 8450 0.00400229 8406 44 99%
1933 7522 0.00376204 7483 39 99%
1934 7819 0.003764898 7787 32 99%
1935 6904 0.003303507 6869 35 99%
1936 6657 0.003204212 6633 24 99%
1937 6268 0.002941798 6235 33 99%
1938 6403 0.002893914 6367 36 99%
1939 5850 0.002654937 5827 23 99%
1940 5355 0.002325546 5334 21 99%
1941 5044 0.002070246 5021 23 99%
1942 4995 0.001828453 4971 24 99%
1943 4563 0.001616618 4541 22 99%
1944 3878 0.001441593 3864 14 99%
1945 3616 0.001363032 3603 13 99%
1946 4279 0.001339151 4266 13 99%
1947 4444 0.001233649 4425 19 99%
1948 3605 0.001044165 3592 13 99%
1949 3427 0.00098342 3413 14 99%
1950 3426 0.000977919 3411 15 99%
1951 3365 0.000913474 3355 10 99%
1952 3349 0.000881779 3341 8 100%
1953 3184 0.000826231 3168 16 99%
1954 3121 0.000784031 3103 18 99%
1955 2940 0.000732239 2935 5 100%
1956 3062 0.000742656 3046 16 99%
1957 2992 0.000712018 2983 9 99%
1958 2752 0.000665715 2737 15 99%
1959 2736 0.00065801 2722 14 99%
1960 2574 0.000619671 2560 14 99%
1961 2568 0.000619945 2549 19 99%
1962 2689 0.000666357 2678 11 99%
1963 2457 0.000620737 2457 100%
1964 2438 0.000627121 2430 8 99%
1965 2072 0.000571515 2051 21 98%
1966 1870 0.000538028 1859 11 99%
1967 1837 0.000541106 1828 9 99%
1968 1564 0.000462939 1550 14 98%
1969 1566 0.000450606 1556 10 99%
1970 1452 0.000402605 1435 17 98%
1971 1373 0.000400017 1361 12 98%
1972 1158 0.000368439 1151 7 99%
1973 1054 0.000349367 1042 12 98%
1974 1070 0.000351974 1062 8 99%
1975 1030 0.000341128 1023 7 99%
1976 940 0.000309791 925 15 97%
1977 785 0.000247128 778 7 98%
1978 736 0.000231894 721 15 96%
1979 782 0.000235047 774 8 98%
1980 763 0.000221512 758 5 99%
1981 738 0.000213333 729 9 98%
1982 688 0.000196125 669 19 94%
1983 533 0.000153898 519 14 95%
1984 474 0.000135865 463 11 95%
1985 510 0.000142893 498 12 95%
1986 485 0.000136348 472 13 95%
1987 478 0.000132571 464 14 94%
1988 457 0.000123679 449 8 96%
1989 543 0.000141243 534 9 97%
1990 502 0.000127009 494 8 97%
1991 514 0.000131955 508 6 98%
1992 468 0.000121835 462 6 97%
1993 456 0.000120946 451 5 98%
1994 452 0.000121582 452 100%
1995 456 0.000124517 456 100%
1996 332 0.000091029 332 100%
1997 355 0.000097911 355 100%
1998 307 0.000083465 307 100%
1999 292 0.00007905 292 100%
2000 243 0.000064287 243 100%
2001 266 0.000071059 266 100%
2002 242 0.000064735 242 100%
2003 203 0.000053388 203 100%
2004 210 0.000054961 210 100%
2005 194 0.000050457 194 100%
2006 205 0.000051818 205 100%
2007 151 0.000037772 151 100%
2008 151 0.000038416 151 100%
2009 126 0.000032983 126 100%
2010 117 0.000031658 117 100%
2011 105 0.000028706 105 100%
2012 60 0.000016405 60 100%
2013 86 0.00002359 86 100%
2014 84 0.000022664 84 100%
2015 77 0.000020806 77 100%
2016 87 0.000023714 87 100%
2017 81 0.00002265 81 100%
2018 81 0.000023038 81 100%
2019 74 0.00002132 74 100%
2020 75 0.000022451 75 100%
2021 99 0.000029221 99 100%
2022 89 0.000026307 89 100%
2023 87 0.000026274 87 100%
2024 67 0.000020129 67 100%

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