as a Last Name
- 72,622
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Norman
Meaning & Origins
English, Irish (Ulster), Scottish, and Dutch: name applied either to a Scandinavian or to someone from Normandy in northern France. The Scandinavian adventurers of the Dark Ages called themselves norðmenn ‘men from the North’. Before 1066, Scandinavian settlers in England were already fairly readily absorbed, and Northman and Normann came to be used as bynames and later as personal names, even among the Saxon inhabitants. The term gained a new use from 1066 onwards, when England was settled by invaders from Normandy, who were likewise of Scandinavian origin but by now largely integrated with the native population and speaking a Romance language, retaining only their original Germanic name.
| 451st in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 72,622
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Carolina
- has the most people named Norman per capita
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