Norma
Just 65 women in Poland carry it, and no girls were given it last year: most Poles have never met one. The name comes from Latin, where it meant a rule or standard.
Norma Pronunciation
Norma is pronounced NOR-mah (/ˈnɔrma/).
What Norma means
Where Norma comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Norma comes straight from Latin, where norma named a carpenter's square, the tool that sets a true right angle. From that object the word grew into an abstract sense: a standard, a measure, the rule by which other things are judged. English keeps the root in norm and normal. The name holds that plain meaning, rule, reguła in Polish.
The composer Vincenzo Bellini gave the name its most famous bearer in 1831, the Druid priestess of his opera Norma. She is bound by sacred law and then breaks it. That tension suits a name that means the rule itself.
In a Polish class register, Norma reads as short and certain. Two syllables, no diminutive. The name has no name-day custom of its own and no folk saint attached. What it stands on is the Latin word behind it, and that word means a standard held up for measurement.
When Norma celebrates name day
Norma appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 12 February.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Norma
1 in 346828 women in Poland is named Norma. 65 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4539 among female names.
Norma as a middle name
Norma is a first name for 65 women in Poland and a middle name for another 15, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1933rd, between Nathalia (15) and Odile (15).
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#1931 Mufaro15
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#1932 Nathalia15
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#1933 Norma15
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#1934 Odile15
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#1935 Pramod15