boys:
2.4k births since 1880
#2594 (43rd percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1880
#5443 (30th percentile)
The name Norval is the #5,443 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,377 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 29.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,594 (43.4% percentile) for all time with 2,377 births since 1880.
Norval has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Norval is available in 86 out of the 102 years between 1880 and 1981. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Norval reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 14.9% percentile (ranked #452) with 80 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 84 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Norval".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Norval. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Norval is pronounced as NOR-vuhl, which has 2 syllables.
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