Uncommon Norwegian Girl 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 Bokmål; in U.S. records from 1952. | 71#2,499 | Down 1,291 rank positions in five years | 1973 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1915. | 64#2,695 | Up 23 rank positions in five years | 1969 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1971. | 15#7,282 | Down 2,468 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 6#13,978 | new | 1926 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 14#7,785 | Down 1,530 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1939. | —Unranked | — | 1967 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1927. | 33#4,310 | Up 300 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1938. | —Unranked | — | 1958 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1957. | 39#3,810 | Up 160 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1967. | —Unranked | — | 1986 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1942. | —Unranked | — | 1958 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1965. | —Unranked | — | 1986 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1983. | 13#8,139 | Down 2,151 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1967. | —Unranked | — | 1985 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1986. | 13#7,923 | Up 1,687 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 2002. | 71#2,498 | Up 3,686 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1966. | —Unranked | — | 1991 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1954. | —Unranked | — | 1965 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1979. | 13#8,226 | Up 1,156 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1911. | 10#9,862 | Up 945 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1942. | —Unranked | — | 1953 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1969. | —Unranked | — | 1992 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1970. | —Unranked | — | 1991 | ||
Recorded in Norwegian; in U.S. records from 1995. | —Unranked | — | 2004 |
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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.