Norwegian Names
Norwegian naming brings together inherited Scandinavian names and international forms. 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 Norwegian Nynorsk; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1915. | 306#813 | Down 161 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Bokmål; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1952. | 71#2,499 | Down 1,291 rank positions in five years | 1973 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1915. | 64#2,695 | Up 23 rank positions in five years | 1969 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971. | 15#7,282 | Down 2,468 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880. | 6#13,978 | new | 1926 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880. | 14#7,785 | Down 1,530 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1939. | —Unranked | — | 1967 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1916. | —Unranked | — | 1956 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1927. | 33#4,310 | Up 300 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1938. | —Unranked | — | 1958 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1957. | 39#3,810 | Up 160 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1967. | —Unranked | — | 1986 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1939. | —Unranked | — | 1955 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1942. | —Unranked | — | 1958 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1995. | 28#3,878 | Down 207 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Bokmål; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1917. | 7#10,003 | Down 3,605 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Bokmål; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1994. | 11#7,482 | Up 378 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1907. | —Unranked | — | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Bokmål; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1918. | —Unranked | — | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Bokmål; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2012. | 5#12,551 | Down 6,497 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1920. | —Unranked | — | 1970 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1912. | —Unranked | — | 1928 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1912. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1941. | 11#7,539 | Down 621 rank positions in five years | 2021 |
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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.