Norm · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Norm.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1935

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 36 recorded years as a table

Norm, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1935	5
1936	6
1938	9
1939	5
1940	13
1941	12
1942	8
1943	11
1944	12
1945	13
1946	13
1947	15
1948	5
1949	9
1950	7
1951	5
1952	7
1953	11
1954	6
1955	10
1956	9
1957	15
1958	16
1959	14
1960	14
1961	10
1962	14
1963	8
1964	6
1965	6
1966	8
1967	5
1968	3
1969	3
1970	4
1971	5

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Norm isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Norm

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1971: 8
Rank in 1971: #3,658
How rare: 1 in 221,055 boys
Since 1935: 562

Norm was last recorded in 1971. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1958, at 16 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Norm doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.