Baby name
REVIVING
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Norman
/NOR · man/
Meaning
“Northman”
From Old French Normand meaning 'Northman', referring to the Viking settlers of Normandy; a name that entered England with the conquest and dominated medieval naming.
Nicknames
norm
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Peaked in the early-to-mid 20th century; firmly retro now, too recent to feel vintage-fresh.
The cultural moment.
Top names in the US and UK through the 1940s; rare since the 1970s, not yet in revival territory.