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Norman

Norman is a boy's name meaning "Man from the north", drawing on Germanic roots. It belongs mostly to the 1930s at this point. These days, it is familiar to most people. Its single strongest year on record was 1928.

GermanicMan from the north
Old FrenchMan from the north, Norseman
Births by decade
1900s
3,199
1910s
25,184
1920s
49,758
1930s
50,287
1940s
42,359
1950s
33,914
1960s
22,930
1970s
10,009
1980s
5,900
1990s
3,435
2000s
2,041
2010s
1,256
Peaked in the 1930s · 250,272 total U.S. births since 1900