Icelandic Boy Names
Icelandic naming preserves many northern forms alongside names shared more widely in Scandinavia. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Icelandic as Jón; in U.S. records from 1898. | 246#951 | Down 141 rank positions in five years | 1964 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1880. | 107#1,593 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 1960 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Lúther; in U.S. records from 1880. | 122#1,464 | Up 45 rank positions in five years | 1922 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1880. | 155#1,269 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 1917 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1957. | 135#1,372 | Down 488 rank positions in five years | 2001 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Tómas; in U.S. records from 1880. | 394#691 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 2003 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Stefán; in U.S. records from 1910. | 219#1,023 | Down 142 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1958. | 808#393 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1893. | 462#612 | Down 85 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Magnús; in U.S. records from 1890. | 337#765 | Up 36 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Björn; in U.S. records from 1925. | 298#829 | Down 52 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Jóhann; in U.S. records from 1912. | 85#1,856 | Down 156 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Þór; in U.S. records from 1904. | 44#2,874 | Down 1,098 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1953. | 162#1,238 | Up 248 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Óskar; in U.S. records from 1916. | 93#1,750 | Down 471 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Sýrus; in U.S. records from 1982. | 88#1,820 | Down 174 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1996. | 85#1,858 | Down 527 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1893. | 47#2,724 | Up 2,179 rank positions in five years | 1915 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Ívar; in U.S. records from 1896. | 133#1,384 | Up 497 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1920. | 14#6,221 | Down 158 rank positions in five years | 1981 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Ísak; in U.S. records from 1979. | 38#3,153 | Up 1,038 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1915. | 52#2,561 | Down 518 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1973. | —Unranked | — | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1910. | —Unranked | — | 1921 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Sírus; in U.S. records from 1995. | 18#5,360 | Down 844 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1993. | 13#6,605 | Up 2,450 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Kristján; in U.S. records from 1982. | —Unranked | — | 1998 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Safír; in U.S. records from 2005. | 14#6,378 | Up 3,020 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Óðinn; in U.S. records from 2012. | 10#8,062 | Up 3,544 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Hjálmar; in U.S. records from 1889. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Ómi; in U.S. records from 2006. | —Unranked | — | 2020 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1991. | —Unranked | — | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 2018. | 7#10,018 | new | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 2003. | —Unranked | — | 2011 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Hákon; in U.S. records from 2021. | 5#12,688 | new | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Rúnar; in U.S. records from 1917. | —Unranked | — | 1917 |
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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.