How popular is the baby name Viggo in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Viggo.
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The top names of 2022, Ella and William, are now in third place and second place, respectively.
The word-name Storm has ranked inside the boys’ top 50 since 2010. (In the U.S., Storm is given to both boys and girls, but has never come close to top-50 status for either gender.)
Last year, Statistics Sweden ominously announced that it would “stop producing name statistics.”
It neglected to mention that the country’s baby name data would continue coming out every year — that the names were simply going to be handled by a different government agency (the Swedish Tax Agency) going forward.
I wanted to be annoyed about this deception, but my annoyance evaporated after I learned that the Swedish Tax Agency had released all of the country’s 2023 baby name data — meaning that we could finally check out Sweden’s rare and unique names (yay!).
So, without further ado, let’s take a look…
Sweden welcomed 100,051 babies in 2023. What were the most popular names among these babies? Vera and Noah.
Here are Sweden’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2023:
The top names of 2022, Astrid and William, dropped to ninth place and third place, respectively.
The boys’ top 100 included Ture (53rd), Vidar (55th), Loke (71st), and Bill (97th).
The girls’ top 100 included Tuva (66th), Stina (75th), Lo (78th), and Eira (81st).
Farther down on the girls’ list I spotted Madicken, which was given to 15 babies last year. Swedish author Astrid Lindgren featured a fictional 7-year-old girl named Margareta “Madicken” Engström in several of her children’s books. (Lindgren had named the character after a childhood friend, Anne-Marie, whose nickname was Madicken.)
And what about the names at the other end of the spectrum? Here’s a sampling of the more than 8,000 names that were bestowed just once in Sweden last year:
Last year, the Scandinavian country of Norway (which shares a border with three other countries: Sweden, Finland, and Russia) welcomed 51,480 babies — over 25,000 girls and nearly 26,500 boys.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Nora for girls, and tie between Jakob and Noah for boys.
Here are Norway’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2022:
Girl Names
Nora/Norah/Noora, 359 baby girls
Emma, 337
Olivia, 331
Ella, 326
Sofie/Sophie, 315
Leah/Lea, 288
Frida, 269
Iben, 266 (tie)
Sofia/Sophia, 266 (tie)
Sara/Sarah/Zara, 262
Maja/Maya/Maia, 258
Ingrid, 253
Alma, 249
Selma, 247
Emilie, 243
Ada, 242
Astrid/Astri, 235
Hedda, 233
Anna, 218
Amalie, 211
Ellinor, 210
Aurora, 208
Hedvig, 205
Tiril/Tirill, 203
Hanna/Hannah, 198
Eva, 195
Jenny, 186
Mia, 184
Vilde, 180
Mathilde/Matilde, 177
Ida, 176
Lilly/Lily, 172
Linnea/Linea/Linnéa, 163 (tie)
Live, 163 (tie)
Marie, 151
Ellie, 150
Sigrid, 149
Thea, 145
Julie, 143
Amelia, 142 (tie)
Luna, 142 (tie)
Amanda, 141 (tie)
Solveig, 141 (tie)
Tuva, 139
Mie, 133
Agnes, 131
Josefine/Josephine, 129
Hermine, 121 (3-way tie)
Signe, 121 (3-way tie)
Ylva, 121 (3-way tie) – based on the Old Norse word ulfr, meaning “wolf.”
Vetle, 156 – based on the Old Norse word vetrliði, meaning “winter-farer,” and, by extension, “bear cub” (i.e., a bear that has lived one winter).
Iver, 155
Leo, 150
Jens, 144 (tie)
Markus/Marcus, 144 (tie)
Alexander/Aleksander, 140
Kristian/Christian, 133
Sverre, 132 – based on the Old Norse verb sverra, meaning “to spin or swirl about,” and, by extension, “troublemaker.”
The two fastest-climbing names were Birk, which rose from 70th to 37th on the boys’ list, and Hedvig, which rose from 38th to 23rd on the girls’ list.
Home to more than 5.4 million people, Norway is — at the moment — divided into 11 administrative regions, or “counties.” (The original 19 counties were reduced to 11 in 2020; the current 11 counties will be expanded to 15 in 2024.)
The top baby names within each of Norway’s 11 counties last year were…
And what about the names at the other end of the spectrum?
Single-use names were given to nearly 8% of the baby girls and 7% of the baby boys born in Norway last year. We don’t have access to these unique names — the country doesn’t release names given to three or fewer babies per year (due to privacy concerns) — but here’s a selection of the names given to four babies:
Names used a single time in the Faroes last year include the girl names Døgg (“dew”) and Royða (“tufa“) and the boy names Bogi (“bow”) and Sproti (“sprout”).
Greenland’s top baby names of 2022, on the other hand, are still unknown at this point. Why? Because whoever edited the country’s English-language statistical booklet, Greenland in Figures 2023 [PDF], forgot to update the small section about baby names on page seven. :)
In 2021, the top baby names in Denmark were Alma and Oscar, the top baby names in the Faroes were Lea/Lív and Jónas, and the top baby names in Greenland were Lea/Luna and Aputsiaq/Marco.
Update, Jul. 2024: Greenland’s top baby names of 2022 — Inuk and Leo for boys, Aviana and Ivalu for girls — were finally included in Greenland’s 2024 [PDF] booklet. :)
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