girls:
1.6k births since 1893
#4153 (27th percentile)
boys:
252.8k births since 1880
#145 (97th percentile)
overall:
254.4k births since 1880
#311 (96th percentile)
The name Norman is the #311 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 254,432 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #145 (96.9% percentile) for all time with 252,829 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,153 (27.3% percentile) for all time with 1,603 births since 1893.
Norman has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1893 for girls).
The name Norman has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Norman reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 93.3% percentile (ranked #36) with 5,072 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 5,072 births per million (ranked 93.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Norman ranks #779 for boys (14.5% percentile) with 75 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Norman reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 8.5% percentile (ranked #542) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 48 births per million (ranked 8.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Norman".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Norman. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Norman is pronounced as NOR-muhn, which has 2 syllables.
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