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Vidar

Boys' name

Wide + army

Vidar has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2022. 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 2024, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Vidar, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vidar: meaning, origin, and history

Wide + army

Old Norse

What Vidar means

Vidar means “wide + army”, associated with víðr and herr.

Origin, language, and formation

Vidar is used in Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish. Its origins include Old Norse.

Vidar comes through Old Norse Víðarr.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Nynorsk, Vidar is pronounced /²viːar/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Vidar between 2022 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2024; its best national rank was #12,249 in 2024.

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 Vidar?

Vidar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vidar 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vidar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vidars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vidar was born before 2024 — so the typical Vidar is around 1 today.

Median birth year
2024
About 1 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Vidar 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2024 (6)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#12,249
2024

Spellings of Vidar

Vidar is not the most common spelling — Aidan is, with 83.6% against Vidar'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.

Vidar around the world

Where Vidar 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
    #448
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1993–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vidar 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
#12,249
2024
Peak year
2024
6 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vidar

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

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Sibling names for Vidar

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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