Entry № 7597 · Latin origin

Norma Norma — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NOR-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Standard / rule (Bellini's Norma; Norma Shearer; Norma Rae)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Latin)

A name that means "standard / rule (bellini's norma; norma shearer; norma rae)".

Norma is from the Latin norma ("standard, rule, measure, square") — the carpenter's square that gave us the word normal. Norma Jeane Mortenson was Marilyn Monroe's birth name.

Standard / rule.

The name in its native script.

Norma
Transliteration
Norma
Pronunciation
/ ˈnɔːr.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Norma stands.

Norma does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Normas before her.

Real people
Norma Shearer
Canadian-American Oscar actress.
1902 – 1983
In fiction
Norma
Bellini's Norma.
1831

Names connected to Norma.

The number behind Norma.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Norma reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.