Norvel
Norvel was last recorded in 1988, when 5 babies were given it; 845 Americans have been recorded with it between 1906 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Norvel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Norvel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Norvel is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Norvel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,162, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1921, the peak
Norvel peaked in 1921, when 22 boys were given it, #1,690 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #8,162 | 2.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,062 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,489 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,047 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,060 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,645 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,527 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,251 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,231 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,645 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 5 | #4,565 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,455 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,452 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,813 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,996 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,559 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,910 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,477 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,255 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,979 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,201 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,851 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,740 | 4.7 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,890 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,363 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,129 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,459 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,288 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,002 | 8.5 |
| 1948 | 20 | #1,691 | 11.4 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,143 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,098 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,832 | 11.1 |
| 1944 | 17 | #1,716 | 12.5 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,148 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 18 | #1,718 | 13.0 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,603 | 7.3 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,668 | 15.5 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,567 | 17.2 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,550 | 18.0 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,294 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,530 | 19.3 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,526 | 20.2 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,593 | 19.4 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,626 | 19.2 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,064 | 13.4 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,018 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,740 | 17.3 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,656 | 19.5 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,489 | 10.8 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,931 | 16.0 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,697 | 18.9 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,284 | 12.5 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,194 | 13.2 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,199 | 13.7 |
| 1922 | 18 | #1,936 | 16.5 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,690 | 20.0 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,026 | 16.0 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,792 | 19.4 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,751 | 19.7 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,666 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,745 | 20.2 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,697 | 21.2 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,662 | 22.9 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,422 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,197 | 16.3 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,495 | 31.0 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,626 | 30.5 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,370 | 37.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Norvel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Norvel has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 69 years of records.
Girls and boys named Norvel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Norvel, and how old are they?
An estimated 249 Americans named Norvel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 59 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 352 people named Norvel (18 women and girls, 334 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 319 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,568 babies since 1880, Norvel is the third most given (18% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Norvel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Norvel and names like it
- Compare Norvel and NorvalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sNorvel peaked in 1921.
- Missouri’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Norvel since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Norvel.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Norvel alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.