Norville — boys' name
324 babies named Norville in U.S. Social Security records since 1913, with the highest year being 1925. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Norville was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Norville in 1925 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Norville
The Social Security Administration has registered 324 babies named Norville between 1913 and 1970, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Norville currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1970. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 14 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Norville performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Norville shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Norville in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Norville 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 324 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.
Norville at a glance
Last recorded 1970Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Norville popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1970–1913
- Peak year (1925)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 58 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1970.
324 total births across 58 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1925 with 14 births in a single year.
Norville by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 100 births that decade — 31% of Norville's all-time total
Norville decade highlights
- Peak decade 100 births
- Runner-up 75 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Norville's strongest decade
100 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Norville by state
Where Norville concentrates geographically — total births since 1913
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Alabama | | 5 | 1.5% |
5 of 324 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Alabama 1.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Alabama accounts for 1.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1913–1970 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.