Norma
Norma is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 67 births. Its best rank was 22nd, in 1931–1932.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 670.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19318,759 births
- Best rank
- #22first in 1931
- Since 1880
- 279,251people given the name
The story in the numbers
277,973 girls have been named Norma in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1931, with 8,759 births — 0.82% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 67 births in 2024, against 8,759 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1930s alone account for 26%. It has spent 123 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 30 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,278 boys have also been given it, 0.46% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Norma | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 590 | |
| 1890s | 1,885 | |
| 1900s | 3,335 | |
| 1910s | 15,500 | |
| 1920s | 65,241 | |
| 1930s | 72,877 | |
| 1940s | 43,030 | |
| 1950s | 30,801 | |
| 1960s | 21,518 | |
| 1970s | 10,272 | |
| 1980s | 5,555 | |
| 1990s | 4,109 | |
| 2000s | 1,991 | |
| 2010s | 852 | |
| 2020s | 417 |
In 1931, its biggest year
Norma was the 22nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1931 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Barbara and Joan. See all of 1931.
Names that rose and fell with Norma
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bettypeak 1930
- Dorthypeak 1927
- Willenepeak 1929
- Jeanpeak 1927
- Billiepeak 1930
- Margiepeak 1925
- Vernellpeak 1924
- Wynellpeak 1932
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.