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Norma

Gender: F Popularity: this week. Origin of Norma: English Meaning of Norma: "the pattern"

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Invented for Bellini's opera, Norma had some star quality in the silent-screen and Marilyn Monroe days, but at this point it's a graying grandma in baby name limbo.

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Famous People Named Norma

Norma Jeane Mortenson (then Baker), birth name of Marilyn Monroe
Norma Talmadge, American actress of the silent era
Norma Fox Mazer, American author
Norma Shearer, 1930s-'40s actress
Norma Smallwood, Miss America 1926

Pop Culture References for the Name Norma

"Norma Rae," an American film starring Sally Field

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