Baby Name: Sister

Last year, the Scandinavian country of Denmark welcomed 57,079 babies.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Emma and Oscar.

Here are Denmark’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2024:

Girl names

1. Emma, 445 baby girls
2. Ella, 437
3. Luna, 423
4. Alma, 415
5. Frida, 408
6. Olivia, 390
7. Ida, 387
8. Agnes, 382
9. Karla, 379
10. Nora, 373
11. Sofia, 367
12. Ellie, 351 (tie)
13. Lily, 351 (tie)
14. Freja, 348
15. Clara, 302
16. Asta, 296
17. Anna, 294
18. Alberte, 276
19. Esther, 260
20. Ellen, 256
21. Aya, 231
22. Astrid, 227
23. Isabella, 220
24. Josefine, 201
25. Leonora, 199
26. Hannah, 198 (tie)
27. Lærke, 198 (tie)
28. Vilma, 198
29. Saga, 193
30. Laura, 187
31. Vera, 182
32. Mathilde, 178
33. Emily, 176
34. Ingrid, 174
35. Mille, 173
36. Maja, 166 (tie)
37. Marie, 166 (tie)
38. Elina, 163 (tie)
39. Liva, 163 (tie)
40. Solvej, 161
41. Liv, 156
42. Eva, 153
43. Merle, 147
44. Victoria, 146
45. Andrea, 145
46. Molly, 140
47. Kaja, 138 (3-way tie)
48. Lea, 138 (3-way tie)
49. Søs, 138 (3-way tie)
50. Gry, 137

Boy names

1. Oscar, 483 baby boys
2. Carl, 466
3. William, 457
4. Noah, 440
5. August, 437
6. Aksel, 429
7. Emil, 428
8. Oliver, 423
9. Alfred, 414
10. Theo, 393
11. Elliot, 378
12. Malthe, 361
13. Hugo, 356
14. Arthur, 354
15. Valdemar, 347
16. Elias, 335
17. Otto, 334
18. Viggo, 328
19. Lucas, 326
20. Matheo, 290
21. Lauge, 286
22. Felix, 276
23. Theodor, 258
24. Liam, 256
25. Conrad, 249
26. Anker, 247
27. Magnus, 246
28. Holger, 244
29. Erik, 242 (tie)
30. Louie, 242 (tie)
31. Luca, 238
32. Anton, 235
33. Victor, 234
34. Ebbe, 227
35. Vincent, 206
36. Storm, 180
37. Pelle, 179
38. Nohr, 173 (tie)
39. Walter, 173 (tie)
40. Kalle, 171
41. Albert, 166
42. Atlas, 159
43. Asger, 158 (tie)
44. Frederik, 158 (tie)
45. Vilhelm, 155
46. Marius, 150
47. Alexander, 146
48. Johan, 144
49. Bjørn, 139
50. Adam, 138

Frida and Carl, the No. 1 names of 2023, are now in fifth and second place, respectively.

In the girls’ top 10, Nora replaced Sofia.

In the boys’ top 10, August and Theo replaced Malthe and Valdemar.

And the curious girl name Søs — short for Søster, the Danish word for “sister” — has been on the rise recently:

• 2024: 138 baby girls named Søs in Denmark
• 2023: 99 baby girls named Søs in Denmark
• 2022: 79 baby girls named Søs in Denmark
• 2021: 43 baby girls named Søs in Denmark
• 2020: 20 baby girls named Søs in Denmark
• 2019: 18 baby girls named Søs in Denmark

I can’t account for its trendiness, but I can tell you that the English equivalent, Sis, has never appeared in the U.S. data. (The name Sister has, though.)

Sources: Baby names – Statistics Denmark, Births – Statistics Denmark, Søs – Nordic Names

Image: Adapted from Flag of Denmark (public domain)