Norwegian Boy Names
Norwegian naming brings together inherited Scandinavian names and international forms. 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 Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1893. | 462#612 | Down 85 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Bokmål; in U.S. records from 1910. | 516#572 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1912. | 257#917 | Down 3 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1912. | 232#984 | Down 157 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1883. | 83#1,897 | Down 91 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Bokmål; in U.S. records from 1890. | 337#765 | Up 36 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk as Bjørn; in U.S. records from 1925. | 298#829 | Down 52 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1904. | 44#2,874 | Down 1,098 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1935. | 206#1,060 | Down 164 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1888. | 20#4,992 | Down 184 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1903. | 7#9,790 | Down 150 rank positions in five years | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1881. | 52#2,555 | Down 395 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1911. | 31#3,644 | Down 1,183 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1884. | 18#5,296 | Down 964 rank positions in five years | 1966 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1880. | 21#4,819 | Down 443 rank positions in five years | 1881 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1893. | 47#2,724 | Up 2,179 rank positions in five years | 1915 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1896. | 133#1,384 | Up 497 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1949. | 12#7,144 | Down 1,195 rank positions in five years | 1965 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1890. | 16#5,815 | Up 2,145 rank positions in five years | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1913. | 15#5,950 | new | 1925 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1995. | 28#3,878 | Down 207 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 2001. | 90#1,789 | Up 1,540 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1881. | —Unranked | — | 1920 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Bokmål; in U.S. records from 1917. | 7#10,003 | Down 3,605 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian as Jørgen; in U.S. records from 1914. | —Unranked | — | 2003 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1912. | —Unranked | — | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1907. | —Unranked | — | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1963. | 9#8,433 | Down 767 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1958. | —Unranked | — | 1968 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1912. | —Unranked | — | 1928 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1912. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1959. | —Unranked | — | 1986 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1916. | —Unranked | — | 1968 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1915. | —Unranked | — | 1931 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1919. | —Unranked | — | 1919 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1964. | —Unranked | — | 1964 |
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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.