Normal — boys' name

What the Data Says About Normal

The Social Security Administration has registered 125 babies named Normal between 1913 and 1947, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Normal currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1947. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Normal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 45 additional births since 1922.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Normal performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 49 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Normal shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Normal in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 125 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.