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Norma

Rank in 2024
#2,602
Born in 2024
67
Peak year
1931 · #22
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 67 girls were named Norma, about 1 in every 24,077.
  • It peaked in 1931 with 8,759 babies, ranked #22.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 277,973 girls have been named Norma since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Norma per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 3.3
    Greatest
  2. 5.6
    Silent
  3. 1.7
    Boomers
  4. 0.8
    Gen X
  5. 0.3
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 67,701 babies, 3.31 per 1,000. Silent: 116,270 babies, 5.63 per 1,000. Boomers: 59,171 babies, 1.65 per 1,000. Gen X: 19,874 babies, 0.78 per 1,000. Millennials: 7,952 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,227 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 987 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Coined name of an imaginary Celtic priestess in Bellini's opera Norma (1831). Sometimes explained as Latin norma (“pattern, model”), or as a feminine form of Norman. ==== Proper noun ==== Norma A female given name originating as a coinage. ===== Usage notes ===== Popular in the U.S.A. in the 1930s.

  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Norma, CC BY-SA 4.0.