Norma

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Norma is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 84th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Probably feminine of Norman; Anglo-Saxon Northman, "man of the North" (Norwegian).

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 348◐
  • MXMexico1 in 403
  • ECEcuador1 in 451

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈280K ●

across 9 countries

#567 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
405 ●

2.8M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 451 ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

NormaLatin · Spanish●3.9M records
נורמהHebrew · Hebrew●3.5K records
ᲜორმაGeorgian · Georgian●2 records
ΝόρμαGreek · Greek●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled נורמה in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Probably feminine of Norman; Anglo-Saxon Northman, "man of the North" (Norwegian).

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Norma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#841,963,9991.2M rec.—32Norma118
MX Mexico#70788,767595K rec.—1.9KNorma215
PE Peru#114252,230202K rec.——Norma72
US United States#748197,245350K rec.1 in 1.7K197KNorma405
CL Chile#154117,9217.4K rec.——Norma81
PH Philippines#164117,444113K rec.——Norma80
VE Venezuela#32780,18033K rec.——Norma56
SV El Salvador#8045,20239K rec.——Norma41
PY Paraguay#5742,06020K rec.——Norma41
BR Brazil#58638,12528K rec.1 in 5.6K47KNorma141
EC Ecuador#13837,466△1.3K rec.1 in 45137KNorma61
EG Egypt#9723,8653.6K rec.——Norma24

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish3.9M52%
  • English2.1M29%
  • Portuguese745K10%
  • 124K2%
  • German27K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish3,861,54452%
English2,127,10729%
Portuguese744,85310%
124,0232%
German26,7831%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Norma is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name2.4M records spelled Norma17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil

    Languages: English, German, Danish

    Also written Ñorma, Nörmä, Normä, Nörmã, Nórma

  • Indonesian given name35K records spelled Norma3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Norma

  • English given name14K records spelled Norma44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Australia, Poland

    Languages: English, Polish, Russian

    Also written Norm, נורם, Nōrmā, Ňôřmâ, Норма

  • Hindi given name13K records spelled Norma13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Peru

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

    Also written Nurma, নুরমা, নূরমা, নর্মা, নরমা

  • Lao given name8.8K records spelled Norma29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written นอร์มา, นอรมา, Noma, Norima, นอรีมา

73 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Norma is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Latin word meaning 'rule' or 'standard', later used as a given name.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, Latin/Scottish; rule or standard; feminine form of Norman.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Portuguese, norm, rule, standard

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

  • In Portuguese, norm (rule that is enforced by members of a community)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, A female given name originating as a coinage.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900195020008.8K · 1931

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Norma in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188032
188126
188232
188349
188442
188551
188672
188777
1888101
1889108
1890134
1891127
1892190
1893189
1894174
1895219
1896197
1897200
1898241
1899214
1900316
1901264
1902277
1903311
1904281
1905311
1906332
1907375
1908430
1909438
1910486
1911531
1912800
1913878
19141,172
19151,737
19161,921
19172,123
19182,653
19193,199
19203,949
19215,102
19225,238
19235,885
19246,542
19256,941
19267,528
19277,997
19288,166
19297,893
19308,511
19318,759
19328,406
19337,482
19347,788
19356,869
19366,633
19376,235
19386,368
19395,827
19405,334
19415,021
19424,971
19434,542
19443,863
19453,603
19464,266
19474,425
19483,593
19493,412
19503,411
19513,355
19523,341
19533,168
19543,103
19552,935
19563,046
19572,984
19582,737
19592,721
19602,562
19612,549
19622,678
19632,458
19642,429
19652,049
19661,860
19671,828
19681,550
19691,556
19701,435
19711,361
19721,151
19731,043
19741,062
19751,022
1976925
1977778
1978721
1979774
1980756
1981729
1982669
1983519
1984463
1985498
1986472
1987464
1988449
1989534
1990494
1991508
1992462
1993451
1994452
1995456
1996332
1997355
1998307
1999292
2000244
2001266
2002242
2003203
2004210
2005194
2006205
2007151
2008151
2009126
2010117
2011105
201260
201386
201484
201577
201687
201781
201881
201974
202075
202199
202289
202387
202469
202595

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Norma Talmadge, b. 1894Norma Varden, b. 1898Norma Shearer, b. 1902Peggy Lee, b. 1920Marilyn Monroe, b. 1926Norma Crane, b. 1928Norma Bengell, b. 1935Norma Aleandro, b. 1936Noma Dumezweni, b. 1969Mon Laferte, b. 1983
  • Norma Talmadgeb. 1894USAmerican actress and film producer (1894–1957)
  • Norma Vardenb. 1898GBEnglish actress (1898-1989)
  • Norma Shearerb. 1902CACanadian-American actress (1902-1983)
  • Peggy Leeb. 1920USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (1920–2002)
  • Marilyn Monroeb. 1926USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and model (1926–1962)
  • Norma Craneb. 1928USAmerican stage, film and television actress (1928 - 1973)
  • Norma Bengellb. 1935BRBrazilian actress, director, screenwriter (1935–2013)
  • Norma Aleandrob. 1936ARArgentine actress
  • Noma Dumezwenib. 1969GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
  • Mon Laferteb. 1983CLnot in their usual nameChilean Mexican singer-songwriter

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 92 sources across 52 countries.

Official registers attesting Norma
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020197K#281
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—47K#821
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202238K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—38K#693
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202437K#46
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—3.6K#217
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.1K#1,654
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2K#882
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—1.9K#49
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—699#2,180
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—583#537
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—578#2,280

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,239 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Norma?
We estimate roughly 280 thousand people bear Norma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Norma have the most bearers?
Norma is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled norma.
How common is Norma compared with other names?
In Argentina, Norma is the 84th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Norma a male or female name?
Norma is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Norma mean?
Recorded meaning: Probably feminine of Norman; Anglo-Saxon Northman, "man of the North" (Norwegian).
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Norma” — the 84th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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