Valborg

Girls' name

To rule + fortress

Valborg has been given to 295 babies in the U.S. since 1892. 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 33 recorded.

Babies named Valborg, 1934

1 in 260,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Valborg: meaning, origin, and history

To rule + fortress

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Valborg means

Valborg means “to rule + fortress”, associated with waltan and burg.

Origin, language, and formation

Valborg is used in Danish, Faroese, Norwegian and Swedish.

Valborg comes through Old High German waltan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 295 girls were recorded with the name Valborg between 1892 and 1934. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,224 in 1915.

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 Valborg?

Valborg had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1934, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1934: 1 in 260,000; 8 of 2,076,780 births
Among girls only: 1 in 131,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1934: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 179,940 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Valborg 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 1934 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 179,940 children born in 1934 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valborg. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Valborgs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Valborg was born before 1916 — so the typical Valborg is around 109 today.

Median birth year: 1916; About 109 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 50.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 80.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (150).

Is Valborg 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 (33)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 35.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,224; 1915

Where Valborg is used

Across 1910–2025, Valborg was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 63,251 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Minnesota1 in 33,333
2North Dakota1 in 50,000
3Wisconsin1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Valborg has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Valborg around the world

Where Valborg 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
1880–1980
#608
in 1980

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

Valborg 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: #1,224; 1915
Peak year: 1915; 33 that year
First recorded: 1892
Last recorded: 1934
All-time count: 295
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Valborg

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

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Sibling names for Valborg

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

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For a brother

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