Uncommon Norwegian Boy Names
Norwegian naming brings together inherited Scandinavian names and international forms. 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 Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1939. | —Unranked | — | 1955 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Bokmål; in U.S. records from 1994. | 11#7,482 | Up 378 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Bokmål; in U.S. records from 1918. | —Unranked | — | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1923. | —Unranked | — | 1963 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Bokmål; in U.S. records from 2012. | 5#12,551 | Down 6,497 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk as Bård; in U.S. records from 1920. | —Unranked | — | 1970 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian as Håvard; in U.S. records from 1912. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1941. | 11#7,539 | Down 621 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1899. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1938. | —Unranked | — | 1951 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1918. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1998. | —Unranked | — | 1998 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1947. | —Unranked | — | 1947 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1913. | —Unranked | — | 1913 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk as Åsmund; in U.S. records from 2024. | 6#10,817 | new | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1917. | —Unranked | — | 1917 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian as Torbjørn; in U.S. records from 2021. | —Unranked | — | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 2022. | —Unranked | — | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1925. | —Unranked | — | 1925 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 2000. | —Unranked | — | 2000 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk as Håkon; in U.S. records from 2021. | 5#12,688 | new | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk as Frøy; in U.S. records from 2013. | —Unranked | — | 2013 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 1956. | —Unranked | — | 1956 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian Nynorsk; in U.S. records from 2019. | —Unranked | — | 2019 |
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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.