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Norwood

Boys' name

North wood

Norwood has been given to 2,909 babies in the U.S. since 1883. 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 1921, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Norwood, 1997

1 in 604,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Norwood: meaning, origin, and history

North wood

surname transfer

What Norwood means

Norwood means “north wood”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Norwood is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈnɔɹ.wʊd/ and /ˈnɔː.wʊd/ for Norwood.

Origin, language, and formation

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

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

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Norwood is pronounced /nɔːwʊd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,909 boys were recorded with the name Norwood between 1883 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 79 in 1921; its best national rank was #730 in 1928.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Norwood?

Norwood had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997
1 in 604,000
6 of 3,624,676 births
Among boys only
1 in 314,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1997
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
418,740 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Norwood 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 1997 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 418,740 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Norwood. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Norwoods were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Norwood was born before 1934 — so the typical Norwood is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
742
People you could plausibly meet
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1920s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (695).

Is Norwood 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 1921 (79)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#730
1928

Spellings of Norwood

Norwood is the most-used spelling, taking 44.0% of the 6,618 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Norwood is used

Across 1910–2025, Norwood was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 85,127 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 7,692
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 25,000
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 50,000
  4. 4Virginia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 100,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Norwood has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Norwood

People whose public names include Norwood, 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.

Norwood 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
#730
1928
Peak year
1921
79 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
2,909
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Norwood

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

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Names with a curve like Norwood

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

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Sibling names for Norwood

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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