Ragnhild

Girls' name

Counsel + battle

Ragnhild has been given to 60 babies in the U.S. since 1900. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Ragnhild, 1931

1 in 421,000

Ragnhild over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ragnhild: meaning, origin, and history

Counsel + battle

Old Norse

What Ragnhild means

Ragnhild means “counsel + battle”, associated with Ragn- and hildr.

Origin, language, and formation

Ragnhild is used in Danish, Faroese, Norwegian and Swedish. Its origins include Old Norse.

Ragnhild comes through Old Norse Ragnhildr.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 60 girls were recorded with the name Ragnhild between 1900 and 1931. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1915; its best national rank was #2,118 in 1904.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ragnhild?

Ragnhild had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1931, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1931: 1 in 421,000; 5 of 2,104,333 births
Among girls only: 1 in 213,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1931: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 291,724 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ragnhild sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1931 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 291,724 children born in 1931 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ragnhild. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ragnhilds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ragnhild was born before 1915 — so the typical Ragnhild is around 110 today.

Median birth year: 1915; About 110 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 58.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 83.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Ragnhild rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1915 (8)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,118; 1904

Ragnhild around the world

Where Ragnhild ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

Norway
1880–2025
#229
in 2025

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Ragnhild by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,118; 1904
Peak year: 1915; 8 that year
First recorded: 1900
Last recorded: 1931
All-time count: 60
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ragnhild

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ragnhild

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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