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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Norman

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#1,200

up +111 places

2025 births

169

up +20 births

All-time births

253,160

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1928
5,590 births
Best rank
#36
in 1931
First recorded
1880
#133 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1942
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 19285,590#39Peak
  2. 19275,494#39
  3. 19315,426#36
  4. 19305,289#40
  5. 19265,282#39

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #36 in 1931 · peak births 5,590 in 1928

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

253,160 boys · 1,602 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Norman has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.