Greenlandic Names
Explore names documented in Greenlandic naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1949. | 724#437 | Down 64 rank positions in five years | 1996 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1917. | 11#7,415 | Down 3,338 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1943. | 52#3,126 | Up 539 rank positions in five years | 1994 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1989. | 158#1,258 | Up 74 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1962. | 135#1,566 | Down 216 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1882. | 40#3,769 | Up 1,378 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1885. | 14#7,504 | Up 933 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1893. | 42#3,618 | Down 814 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1970. | 24#4,317 | Down 1,498 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1886. | 10#9,497 | Up 5,763 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1986. | 5#13,255 | Up 144 rank positions in five years | 2002 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2006. | 27#4,006 | Up 1,865 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971. | —Unranked | — | 1972 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1967. | —Unranked | — | 1980 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1973. | —Unranked | — | 1994 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1978. | —Unranked | — | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2017. | 7#12,824 | Up 1,824 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2003. | —Unranked | — | 2013 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2006. | —Unranked | — | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2005. | 5#16,384 | new | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2020. | —Unranked | — | 2020 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2023. | —Unranked | — | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1984. | —Unranked | — | 1984 | ||
Recorded in Greenlandic; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1989. | —Unranked | — | 1989 |
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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.