Norvell
Recorded 1905–2012 · United States
Norvell was most popular in 1936, when 27 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,531 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,275 people named Norvell.
Norvell over time
How old is the name Norvell?
Norvell first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1905, which makes it about 120 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 89 of the 121 years since. It was last recorded in 2012.
How many people are named Norvell?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,275 American births named Norvell between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 576 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Norvell in 2025?
Norvell was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Norvell getting more or less popular?
Norvell is out of use. It averaged 6 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Norvell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Norvell is mostly a boy’s name — 9.2% of the 1,275 Americans given it were girls and 90.8% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Norvell?
Roughly 576 Americans named Norvell are alive today — 45% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 64 years old, and half are between 48 and 75.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org