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How popular is “Norman” in the USA?

Number of people named “Norman” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Norman” 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 “Norman” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Norman” by birth year

This chart shows how “Norman” 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 102 0.000506244 102 -100%
1881 95 0.000493025 95 -100%
1882 107 0.000482998 107 -100%
1883 106 0.000488601 106 -100%
1884 130 0.000533966 130 -100%
1885 118 0.000489923 118 -100%
1886 161 0.000630591 161 -100%
1887 119 0.000481018 119 -100%
1888 156 0.000520913 156 -100%
1889 141 0.00048798 141 -100%
1890 156 0.000517583 156 -100%
1891 163 0.000568592 163 -100%
1892 191 0.000571217 191 -100%
1893 172 0.000528868 6 166 -93%
1894 199 0.000587558 199 -100%
1895 211 0.000601105 211 -100%
1896 178 0.000497924 178 -100%
1897 197 0.000567794 197 -100%
1898 207 0.000542659 207 -100%
1899 228 0.000672102 5 223 -96%
1900 321 0.000712925 5 316 -97%
1901 238 0.000688235 238 -100%
1902 261 0.000674884 5 256 -96%
1903 238 0.000624344 238 -100%
1904 305 0.000755914 305 -100%
1905 355 0.000837418 5 350 -97%
1906 324 0.000756213 324 -100%
1907 368 0.000790735 6 362 -97%
1908 374 0.000765376 374 -100%
1909 415 0.000811777 415 -100%
1910 557 0.000942932 557 -100%
1911 691 0.001072518 691 -100%
1912 1378 0.001394649 11 1367 -98%
1913 1759 0.001546904 11 1748 -99%
1914 2348 0.001657789 13 2335 -99%
1915 3282 0.001791068 20 3262 -99%
1916 3633 0.001878085 24 3609 -99%
1917 3808 0.001897596 20 3788 -99%
1918 3895 0.001794012 28 3867 -99%
1919 3833 0.001816377 24 3809 -99%
1920 4142 0.001830603 33 4109 -98%
1921 4505 0.001929745 26 4479 -99%
1922 4564 0.001993748 37 4527 -98%
1923 4734 0.002056043 28 4706 -99%
1924 5080 0.002133011 35 5045 -99%
1925 5012 0.002148029 37 4975 -99%
1926 5337 0.002324573 55 5282 -98%
1927 5542 0.002389454 48 5494 -98%
1928 5637 0.002493213 47 5590 -98%
1929 5212 0.002377563 55 5157 -98%
1930 5330 0.00239735 41 5289 -98%
1931 5462 0.002595529 36 5426 -99%
1932 5315 0.002517417 46 5269 -98%
1933 4996 0.002498691 39 4957 -98%
1934 5010 0.002412347 21 4989 -99%
1935 5063 0.002422604 19 5044 -99%
1936 4669 0.002247328 24 4645 -99%
1937 4696 0.002204002 23 4673 -99%
1938 4991 0.002255744 38 4953 -98%
1939 4759 0.002159803 17 4742 -99%
1940 4601 0.001998102 25 4576 -99%
1941 4482 0.00183958 23 4459 -99%
1942 4703 0.001721564 20 4683 -99%
1943 4543 0.001609532 21 4522 -99%
1944 4091 0.001520773 26 4065 -99%
1945 3742 0.001410527 16 3726 -99%
1946 4182 0.001308794 21 4161 -99%
1947 4425 0.001228374 15 4410 -99%
1948 3912 0.001133086 18 3894 -99%
1949 3676 0.001054874 8 3668 -100%
1950 3664 0.001045854 23 3641 -99%
1951 3743 0.001016087 14 3729 -99%
1952 3588 0.000944706 16 3572 -99%
1953 3387 0.000878908 15 3372 -99%
1954 3429 0.000861405 12 3417 -99%
1955 3438 0.000856272 27 3411 -98%
1956 3436 0.000833366 19 3417 -99%
1957 3355 0.000798402 15 3340 -99%
1958 3091 0.000747719 18 3073 -99%
1959 2797 0.00067268 20 2777 -99%
1960 2723 0.000655542 24 2699 -98%
1961 2699 0.00065157 13 2686 -99%
1962 2800 0.000693864 12 2788 -99%
1963 2499 0.000631348 20 2479 -98%
1964 2272 0.000584422 14 2258 -99%
1965 2321 0.000640197 19 2302 -98%
1966 2186 0.000628946 15 2171 -99%
1967 1975 0.000581755 20 1955 -98%
1968 1789 0.000529539 22 1767 -98%
1969 1668 0.000479955 20 1648 -98%
1970 1535 0.000425619 13 1522 -98%
1971 1362 0.000396812 20 1342 -97%
1972 1183 0.000376393 11 1172 -98%
1973 996 0.000330142 10 986 -98%
1974 1009 0.000331908 9 1000 -98%
1975 858 0.000284163 9 849 -98%
1976 833 0.000274528 8 825 -98%
1977 769 0.000242091 14 755 -96%
1978 752 0.000236935 13 739 -97%
1979 703 0.000211301 8 695 -98%
1980 732 0.000212512 7 725 -98%
1981 685 0.000198013 685 -100%
1982 639 0.000182157 5 634 -98%
1983 630 0.000181905 6 624 -98%
1984 601 0.000172268 7 594 -98%
1985 583 0.000163346 9 574 -97%
1986 503 0.000141408 503 -100%
1987 531 0.00014727 6 525 -98%
1988 500 0.000135316 8 492 -97%
1989 497 0.000129277 497 -100%
1990 443 0.000112082 443 -100%
1991 521 0.000133752 521 -100%
1992 405 0.000105434 405 -100%
1993 393 0.000104236 393 -100%
1994 328 0.000088228 328 -100%
1995 279 0.000076185 279 -100%
1996 264 0.000072384 264 -100%
1997 295 0.000081363 295 -100%
1998 271 0.000073677 271 -100%
1999 240 0.000064973 240 -100%
2000 271 0.000071695 271 -100%
2001 228 0.000060907 228 -100%
2002 210 0.000056175 210 -100%
2003 220 0.000057859 220 -100%
2004 211 0.000055222 211 -100%
2005 197 0.000051237 197 -100%
2006 181 0.000045751 181 -100%
2007 191 0.000047778 191 -100%
2008 195 0.00004961 195 -100%
2009 164 0.00004293 164 -100%
2010 147 0.000039776 147 -100%
2011 130 0.000035541 130 -100%
2012 160 0.000043747 160 -100%
2013 159 0.000043613 159 -100%
2014 174 0.000046946 174 -100%
2015 148 0.00003999 148 -100%
2016 183 0.000049881 183 -100%
2017 172 0.000048096 172 -100%
2018 156 0.00004437 156 -100%
2019 160 0.000046097 160 -100%
2020 174 0.000052087 174 -100%
2021 169 0.000049883 169 -100%
2022 167 0.000049363 167 -100%
2023 138 0.000041677 138 -100%
2024 148 0.000044464 148 -100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Norman:

  1. Normajean
  2. Normal
  3. Normalea
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  5. Normalinda
  6. Norman (this page)
  7. Normand
  8. Normandie
  9. Normando
  10. Normandy
  11. Normani