Norwood
Norwood is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 730th, in 1928.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192179 births
- Best rank
- #730in 1928
- Since 1883
- 2,909people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,909 boys have been named Norwood in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 79 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 79 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Norwood | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 17 | |
| 1890s | 31 | |
| 1900s | 53 | |
| 1910s | 437 | |
| 1920s | 695 | |
| 1930s | 508 | |
| 1940s | 426 | |
| 1950s | 321 | |
| 1960s | 221 | |
| 1970s | 98 | |
| 1980s | 76 | |
| 1990s | 26 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Norwood was the 749th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Norwood
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Haroldpeak 1924
- Maynardpeak 1922
- Merlepeak 1925
- Elwinpeak 1923
- Wilbertpeak 1922
- Bernardpeak 1924
- Foypeak 1921
- Arnoldpeak 1924
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.