Norval

Where Norval comes from

Norval hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1862
    Norval MacGregor born
    American actor and film producer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1887
    Peak, #631
    9 babies named Norval — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Norval MacGregor · American actor and film producer, 1862–1933

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.