Faroese Girl Names

Explore names documented in Faroese naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1893.

13#8,313
Down 386 rank positions in five years
1970

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

12#8,651
Down 2,138 rank positions in five years
1918

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1942.

—Unranked
—
1990

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1934.

78#2,346
Down 109 rank positions in five years
2005

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1913.

—Unranked
—
1947

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

7#12,276
Down 3,154 rank positions in five years
1920

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1887.

14#7,648
Down 1,689 rank positions in five years
2009

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1991.

48#3,284
Up 440 rank positions in five years
2017

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1923.

5#17,213
Up 236 rank positions in five years
1954

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1979.

7#11,939
Down 2,396 rank positions in five years
1993

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1888.

20#6,075
Down 31 rank positions in five years
2023

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1954.

59#2,883
Up 116 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

—Unranked
—
1916

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1887.

17#6,816
Down 1,825 rank positions in five years
2023

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971.

15#7,359
Up 74 rank positions in five years
2008

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1915.

—Unranked
—
1958

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1946.

—Unranked
—
1961

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1898.

—Unranked
—
1919

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1957.

—Unranked
—
1966

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1973.

—Unranked
—
1984

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1970.

11#9,397
Up 7,869 rank positions in five years
2001

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1961.

—Unranked
—
1974

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1916.

—Unranked
—
1999

Recorded in Faroese; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1998.

8#11,540
Down 1,538 rank positions in five years
2012

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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