Given name & surname
Normand
“a man from the north”
Normand is a variant of Norman. One English interpretation is “a man from the north.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Normand is a variant of Norman. One English interpretation is “a man from the north.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Normand is a variant of Norman. An origin associated with Norman is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Normand through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,831
- 5,831 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1929
- 223 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2001. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 223 in 1929. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,448 as a first name in 2020; 2,920 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Normand’s family of names
Normand has a related form in Norman.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Normand
- Normand CorbeilCanadian composer (1956-2013)
- Normand D'AmourCanadian actor (born 1962)
- Normand LockwoodAmerican classical composer (1906–2002)
- Normand RochefortCanadian ice hockey defencemanborn 1961
- Normand BrathwaiteCanadian actorborn 1958
- Normand LéveilléCanadian ice hockey playerborn 1963
- Normand RogerCanadian film composerborn 1949
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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