Most popular baby names in Norway

The official top 100 baby names in Norway for 2025: Emma and Noah lead. Each name's count and how it moved since the year before.

The most popular names given to babies in Norway in 2025 were Emma for girls (386 babies) and Noah for boys (460 babies).

2025 is the newest list Statistics Norway (SSB) has published. The 2026 list usually comes out around February 2027, and this page is updated when it does.

How this list is counted. Babies born in Norway in the year (from 2021, names given in the year), from the population register. Every spelling is its own name here, so ranks can differ from Statistics Norway's own lists, which merge similar spellings; names given to fewer than 4 babies are left out.

Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), table 10467, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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Top girls' names 2025

  • 1. Emma (386)
  • 2. Olivia (368)
  • 3. Nora (357)
  • 4. Ella (348)
  • 5. Frida (337)
  • 6. Sofie (336)
  • 7. Ellinor (308)
  • 8. Alma (297)
  • 9. Astrid (296)
  • 9. Hedda (296)
  • 11. Selma (292)
  • 12. Leah (279)
  • 13. Sofia (266)
  • 14. Aurora (238)
  • 15. Ingrid (237)
  • 16. Emilie (231)
  • 17. Iben (222)
  • 18. Ada (221)
  • 19. Hedvig (219)
  • 20. Hennie (217)
  • 21. Mia (213)
  • 22. Eva (198)
  • 23. Anna (196)
  • 24. Josefine (187)
  • 25. Amalie (186)
  • 26. Tiril (185)
  • 27. Maja (178)
  • 27. Solveig (178)
  • 29. Jenny (176)
  • 30. Tuva (170)
  • 31. Linnea (167)
  • 31. Vilde (167)
  • 33. Ellie (163)
  • 33. Mathilde (163)
  • 35. Sonja (162)
  • 36. Saga (152)
  • 37. Ida (151)
  • 38. Lilly (145)
  • 39. Amelia (144)
  • 39. Live (144)
  • 41. Signe (143)
  • 41. Sigrid (143)
  • 43. Sara (140)
  • 44. Eira (139)
  • 45. Marie (138)
  • 46. Ylva (135)
  • 47. Johanne (134)
  • 48. Mie (133)
  • 49. Agnes (127)
  • 49. Thea (127)
  • 51. Oline (126)
  • 52. Amanda (125)
  • 52. Hanna (125)
  • 54. Klara (117)
  • 55. Mille (116)
  • 56. Frøya (114)
  • 57. Kaja (113)
  • 58. Eline (112)
  • 59. Louise (111)
  • 60. Julie (108)

Top boys' names 2025

  • 1. Noah (460)
  • 2. Emil (405)
  • 3. William (368)
  • 4. Elias (357)
  • 5. Oliver (343)
  • 6. Isak (320)
  • 7. Liam (314)
  • 8. Johannes (305)
  • 9. Jakob (297)
  • 10. Olav (285)
  • 11. Theodor (276)
  • 12. Matheo (264)
  • 13. Ludvig (262)
  • 14. Ulrik (259)
  • 15. Tobias (257)
  • 16. Henrik (256)
  • 17. Magnus (252)
  • 18. Birk (251)
  • 19. Gustav (250)
  • 20. Herman (241)
  • 21. Oskar (236)
  • 22. Theo (232)
  • 23. Kasper (227)
  • 24. Lucas (225)
  • 25. Aksel (222)
  • 26. Alfred (211)
  • 27. Filip (210)
  • 28. Leo (201)
  • 29. Adam (198)
  • 30. Jens (195)
  • 30. Odin (195)
  • 30. Vetle (195)
  • 33. Sverre (188)
  • 34. Iver (186)
  • 34. Lukas (186)
  • 34. Mikkel (186)
  • 37. Håkon (181)
  • 37. Sander (181)
  • 39. Johan (175)
  • 40. Felix (174)
  • 41. Mathias (173)
  • 42. Even (163)
  • 43. Brage (161)
  • 44. Gabriel (155)
  • 45. Edvin (148)
  • 46. Leon (147)
  • 47. Sigurd (145)
  • 48. Benjamin (144)
  • 49. Jonas (142)
  • 50. Henry (138)
  • 50. Oscar (138)
  • 52. Ole (135)
  • 53. Sebastian (131)
  • 54. Julian (128)
  • 55. Jesper (121)
  • 56. Bjørn (119)
  • 57. Einar (118)
  • 58. Albert (116)
  • 58. Jacob (116)
  • 60. Luca (114)