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Runar

Boys' name

From Proto-Germanic *harjaz; literal meaning unconfirmed

Runar has been given to 7 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1917, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Runar, 1917

1 in 287,000

Runar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Runar: meaning, origin, and history

From Proto-Germanic *harjaz; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Runar means

Runar is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Runar is used in Norwegian Nynorsk.

Runar comes through Proto-Germanic *harjaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rúnar.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Runar between 1917 and 1917. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1917; its best national rank was #3,491 in 1917.

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 Runar?

Runar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1917, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1917
1 in 287,000
7 of 2,006,698 births
Among boys only
1 in 132,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1917
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
198,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Runar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1917 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 198,706 children born in 1917 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Runar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Runars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Runar was born before 1917 — so the typical Runar is around 108 today.

Median birth year
1917
About 108 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Runar 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (7)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,491
1917

Spellings of Runar

Runar is not the most common spelling — Ronan is, with 37.3% against Runar's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Runar around the world

Where Runar 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
    1880–2019
    #488
    in 2019

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

Runar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,491
1917
Peak year
1917
7 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1917
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Runar

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

HunarRundyRunnieKonarLunarManarTanarCinarRunakoKrenarGunarConarRuneAnarTannarKonnarEinarRagnarConnarApolinarGunnar

Sibling names for Runar

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

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