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Norton

Boys' name

North + enclosure; settlement, town

Norton has been given to 2,310 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1928, with 74 recorded.

Babies named Norton, 2020

1 in 557,000

Norton 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Norton: meaning, origin, and history

North + enclosure; settlement, town

surname transfer

What Norton means

Norton means “north + enclosure; settlement, town”, associated with norþ and tūn.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old English norþ (“north”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The parish in New Brunswick is named after Norton, Massachusetts.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Norton (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Norton is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Norton comes through Old English norþ.

Norton is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Norton is pronounced /ˈnɔɹtən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,310 boys were recorded with the name Norton between 1882 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 74 in 1928; its best national rank was #711 in 1897.

How common is Norton?

Norton had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 288,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Norton 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 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Norton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nortons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Norton was born before 1930 — so the typical Norton is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
397
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (585).

Is Norton 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1928 (74)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#711
1897

Spellings of Norton

Norton is not the most common spelling — Norman is, with 36.4% against Norton's 0.33%.

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.

Where Norton is used

Across 1910–2025, Norton was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 163,002 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Iowa1 in —
  6. 6Kentucky1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Norton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Norton around the world

Where Norton ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • France
    1998–2016
    #5,894
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1956–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Norton

People whose public names include Norton, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Norton 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
—
Best rank ever
#711
1897
Peak year
1928
74 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
2,310
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Norton

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

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Names with a curve like Norton

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Norton, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Norton

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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