Norma

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Norma: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Norma: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 11 years, it reached #154 in 1969, and it stood at #4,709 in 2023.

3registrars recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
79years from first to last
#154highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Norma's record

Absent from every published list for 11 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2001	#3262
2005	#3970
2017	#5765
2018	#5666
2019	#4686
2020	#3899
2021	#3961
2023	#4709

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 34 of the 38 years from 1964 to 2001.

In 2001: #606 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3262 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #332 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1964–2001
Highest recorded position: #154 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1969 (recorded 1964–2001).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #4709 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Norma appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, with 34 ranked years and 624 births registered; the earliest is Norway · Girls, from 1945.

Norma across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Norma's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#201 (1964)	#154 (1969)	#606 (2001)	34 of 38	624 (1964–2001)	37 (1969)
Norway · Girls	#332 (1945)	#291 (1950)	#574 (1974)	15 of 30	93 (1945–1974)	9 (1950)
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#3262 (2001)	#4709 (2023)	9 of 26	35 (1998–2023)	5 (2020)

Norma by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Norma in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	130	6 of 10	22
1970sbusiest	270	10 of 10	27
1980s	174	10 of 10	17
1990s	47	7 of 10	7
2000s	3	1 of 10	3

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade, averaging 27 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Norma appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #154 in Republic of Ireland in 1969.

Norma's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#574	5	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#470	5	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#454	5	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#448	5	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#431	5	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#353	7	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#371	6	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#362	7	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#353	7	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#424	4	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#293	9	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#291	9	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#350	6	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#337	7	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#332	6	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#440	5	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#429	5	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#451	4	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#385	6	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#304	10	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	6	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#281	11	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#250	14	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#270	13	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#287	12	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#240	16	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#267	13	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#308	10	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#219	21	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#230	21	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#225	22	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#189	32	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#193	29	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#195	29	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#171	34	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#199	27	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#176	32	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#188	32	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#218	22	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#213	20	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#200	23	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#196	22	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#154	37	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#173	26	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#189	18	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#195	16	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#180	19	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#201	14	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2023, ranked in 56 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #154, first reached in 1969.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 37 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1969.

Its record falls into 10 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 11 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1964, and 53 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Noreen · #60, 61y
Nori · #2058, 10y
Norman · #62, 62y
Normann · #216, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Neal · #154, 59y
Benedict · #155, 51y
Juliette · #155, 55y
Marielle · #152, 55y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Arna · #154, 34y
Elisabet · #154, 68y
Svend · #154, 52y
Alfhild · #153, 24y

Norma was ranked #154 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1969. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Norma and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Norma without appearing here.

Norma moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4686 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4686 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #5493.
Kristin Compare
In 2018 they stood at #5666 and #5666 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #4686 and #5591.

Moved ahead of Norma

Eabha Compare
In 2000 they stood at #440 and #496 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2001 that had become #606 and #152.
Victoria Compare
In 1973 they stood at #470 and #523 in Norway · Girls; by 1974 that had become #574 and #227.
Amelia Compare
In 2000 they stood at #440 and #576 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2001 that had become #606 and #302.
Daisy Compare
In 2000 they stood at #440 and #496 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2001 that had become #606 and #335.

Moved the opposite way to Norma

Aisling Compare
Between 1964 and 2001 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Norma went from #201 to #606 while Aisling went from #154 to #23.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1964 and 2001 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Norma went from #201 to #606 while Alexandra went from #222 to #68.
Alison Compare
Between 1964 and 2001 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Norma went from #201 to #606 while Alison went from #146 to #62.
Aoife Compare
Between 1964 and 2001 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Norma went from #201 to #606 while Aoife went from #206 to #2.

Moved the same way as Norma

Alice Compare
Between 1964 and 2001 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Norma went from #201 to #606 and Alice from #57 to #87.
Angela Compare
Between 1964 and 2001 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Norma went from #201 to #606 and Angela from #24 to #278.
Anita Compare
Between 1964 and 2001 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Norma went from #201 to #606 and Anita from #130 to #254.
Ann Compare
Between 1964 and 2001 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Norma went from #201 to #606 and Ann from #4 to #125.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #154 in Republic of Ireland in 1969. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Norma

Norma at a glance

What stands out in Norma's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Norma across 3 official records

Norma by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Norma appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

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Norma and the names beside it

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Norma at a glance

What stands out in Norma's record

Norma across 3 official records

Norma by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Norma appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Norma

Norma and the names beside it

Norma moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Norma

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