Norvell
Norvell was last recorded in 2012, when 6 babies were given it; 1,275 Americans have been recorded with it between 1905 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Norvell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Norvell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,841, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1936, the peak
Norvell peaked in 1936, when 27 babies were given it (22 boys, #1,450 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #11,841 | 3.2 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,138 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,571 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,946 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,875 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,523 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,380 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,051 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,945 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,050 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #8,163 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,476 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,194 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,739 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,101 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,315 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,480 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,357 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,023 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,845 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,445 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,463 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,641 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,191 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,061 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,617 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,506 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,291 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,836 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,279 | 8.4 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,271 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,921 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,167 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,051 | 8.6 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,790 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,633 | 5.4 |
| 1962 | 19 | #1,882 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,984 | 8.5 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,284 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,020 | 8.0 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,145 | 7.1 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,930 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,232 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,283 | 6.3 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,802 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 26 | #1,497 | 13.2 |
| 1952 | 18 | #1,844 | 9.3 |
| 1951 | 20 | #1,716 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 18 | #1,791 | 10.1 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,193 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 17 | #1,862 | 9.7 |
| 1947 | 22 | #1,634 | 12.0 |
| 1946 | 20 | #1,630 | 12.3 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,098 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 17 | #1,717 | 12.5 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,051 | 9.8 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,575 | 15.2 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,292 | 22.0 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,057 | 11.2 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,772 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,329 | 23.4 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,394 | 22.5 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,450 | 21.2 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,574 | 19.2 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,198 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,755 | 17.1 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,278 | 11.5 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,627 | 19.2 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,039 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,834 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,127 | 13.5 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,485 | 10.6 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,300 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,567 | 21.5 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,948 | 15.9 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,736 | 19.2 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,213 | 13.8 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,125 | 14.5 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,138 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,619 | 11.2 |
| 1918 | 17 | #1,969 | 16.8 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,878 | 18.4 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,492 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,262 | 14.1 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,938 | 18.3 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,484 | 27.3 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,001 | 18.6 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,496 | 31.0 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,370 | 37.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Norvell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,275 Americans recorded as Norvell, 9% are girls and 91% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Norvell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Norvell, and how old are they?
An estimated 554 Americans named Norvell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (43% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 47 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 593 people named Norvell (61 women and girls, 532 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 655 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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, Norvell is the second most given (28% 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 Norvell
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 Norvell and names like it
- Compare Norvell and NorvalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sNorvell peaked in 1936.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Norvell since 1910.
- The top names of 1936The year the most babies were named Norvell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Norvell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.