Uncommon Danish Boy Names
Danish naming combines Scandinavian traditions with shorter forms of international classics. Every name shown is outside the latest U.S. Top 1000 for the sex displayed, including names without a published count that year. 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 Danish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 124#1,447 | Down 26 rank positions in five years | 1960 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 146#1,325 | Up 140 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1883. | 83#1,897 | Down 91 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 54#2,496 | Up 542 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1946. | 69#2,124 | Down 547 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1916. | 93#1,750 | Down 471 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Danish as Hågen; in U.S. records from 1973. | 73#2,044 | Down 263 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1912. | 24#4,271 | Down 1,833 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1913. | 54#2,499 | Down 193 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1916. | 10#7,771 | Down 3,328 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1884. | 66#2,170 | Up 989 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1941. | —Unranked | — | 1957 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1975. | —Unranked | — | 1978 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1950. | —Unranked | — | 1990 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1888. | 12#7,095 | Up 6,503 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1888. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1953. | —Unranked | — | 1956 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1990. | —Unranked | — | 2011 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1916. | —Unranked | — | 1917 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1917. | —Unranked | — | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1913. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1884. | —Unranked | — | 1884 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1918. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Danish; in U.S. records from 1992. | —Unranked | — | 1992 |
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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.