Norland

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Norland has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Norland, 1966

1 in 695,000

Norland over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Norland?

Norland had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1966, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1966
1 in 695,000
5 of 3,475,564 births
Among boys only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1966
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,817 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Norland sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1966 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,817 children born in 1966 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Norland. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Norlands were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Norland was born before 1943 — so the typical Norland is around 82 today.

Median birth year
1943
About 82 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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1910s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Norland rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (6)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,710
1915

Spellings of Norland

Norland is not the most common spelling — Norman is, with 42.0% against Norland's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Norland by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,710
1915
Peak year
1915
6 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1966
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Norland

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Norland

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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