Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1905. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Norvell through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,275
- 1,158 boys · 117 girls
- Most popular year
- 1936
- 27 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 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 27 in 1941. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 593 as a first name in 2020; 3,533 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.
People named Norvell
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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