Norvell

At the 2020 census, 3,533 Americans bore the surname Norvell — 8,895th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 84,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,533
Rank: 8,895th
How common: 1 in 84,600
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Norman

Scottish surname of Norman origin, reduced form of the Norman habitational surname Normanville. See Norville.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.1%
Black, not Hispanic 14.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Surnames like Norvell

Also a first name

Norvell has been given to 1,275 American babies as a first name since 1905, peaking in 1941. 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.