Norman

Norman is the 514th most common surname in the United States, shared by 63,944 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,674.

By the numbers

People: 63,944
Rank: 514th
How common: 1 in 4,674
Per 100,000: 21.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname, from an ethnonym

From Middle English Norman, from Old English Norman (a variant of Norþman) and Old French Normant.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Norman described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 66.6%
Black, not Hispanic 24.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Norman

Jessye Norman (1945–2019)American opera singer
Jace Norman (born 2000)American actor
Peter Norman (1942–2006)Australian sprinter
Chris Norman (born 1950)English soft rock singer
Magnus Norman (born 1976)Swedish tennis player
Donald Norman (born 1935)American academic
Maurice Norman (1934–2022)English footballer
Michael Norman (born 1997)American sprinter

People named Norman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Norman

Also a first name

Norman has been given to 254,762 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1928. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.