Norma
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Probably feminine of Norman; Anglo-Saxon Northman, "man of the North" (Norwegian)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/noɾma/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Norma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 191(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 310
- PYParaguay≈1 in 333
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #449 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 449 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 191 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Probably feminine of Norman; Anglo-Saxon Northman, "man of the North" (Norwegian).
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Norma is read(measured from records)
Norma is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish52%
Probably feminine of Norman; Anglo-Saxon Northman, "man of the North" (Norwegian).
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English36%
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…
A female given name originating as a coinage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Norma counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #74 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 191 | 32 | Norma | 123 |
| US United States | #763 | 197,653 | 1 in 1.7K | 197K | Norma | 449 |
| PH Philippines | #213 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 670 | — | Norma | 83 |
| PE Peru | #105 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 473 | — | Norma | 82 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 5 | Norma | 100 |
| EC Ecuador | #97 | 37,466 | 1 in 451 | 37K | Norma | 62 |
| PY Paraguay | #61 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 333 | — | Norma | 45 |
| SV El Salvador | #123 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 310 | — | Norma | 42 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Norma is also recorded in 3 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 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)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 96 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 197K | #281 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 37K | #46 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 408 | #281 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 95 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 32 | #1,290 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1985 | 5 | #437 |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Norma mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably feminine of Norman; Anglo-Saxon Northman, "man of the North" (Norwegian). Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- In which country does Norma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 238 thousand people named Norma in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled norma.
- 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.
- How common is the name Norma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 197,653 people named Norma in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Norma compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Norma is the 74th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Norma?
- A machine transcription gives /noɾma/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Norma?
- In the etymology graph, Normina is a form of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Norma?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/normaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 74th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.