Norwegian top 50 baby names of 2014

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

I love days like these when they release the top baby names for the previous year. Since they add all spellings, I'll put the least used variants in parantheses.


1. Lucas (Lukas)
2. William
3. Markus (Marcus)
4. Emil
5. Oskar (Oscar)
6. Mathias (Matias)
7. Magnus
8. Filip (Fillip, Philip)
9. Jakob (Jacob)
10. Aksel (Axel)
11. Henrik
12. Isak (Isaac, Isac)
13. Noah (Noa)
14. Oliver
15. Jonas
16. Elias
17. Liam
18. Kasper (Casper, Kacper)
19. Sander
20. Alexander (Aleksander)
21. Kristian (Christian)
22. Tobias
23. Leon
24. Theodor (Teodor)
25. Sebastian
26. Daniel
27. Benjamin
28. Matheo
29. Adrian
30. Mohammad (Mohamed, Mohammed)
31. Johannes
32. Martin
33. Nikolai (Nicolai, Nicolay)
34. Olav
35. Håkon
36. Ludvig (Ludvik)
37. Theo (Teo)
38. Andreas
39. Erik (Eric)
40. Jonathan (Jonatan)
41. Herman (Hermann)
42. Odin
43. Victor (Viktor)
44. Sigurd
45. Mikkel
46. Kristoffer (Christoffer, Christopher)
47. Marius
48. Fredrik (Frederik, Frederick)
49. Even
50. Ole



1. Nora (Norah)
2. Emma
3. Sara (Sarah, Sahra)
4. Sofie (Sophie)
5. Emilie
6. Anna
7. Linnea (Linea)
8. Thea (Tea)
9. Maja (Maia, Maya)
10. Sofia (Sophia)
11. Ingrid (Ingri, Ingerid)
12. Ella
13. Leah (Lea)
14. Julie
15. Ida
16. Mathilde (Matilde)
17. Amalie
18. Olivia
19. Frida
20. Mia
21. Vilde
22. Hanna (Hannah)
23. Victoria (Viktoria)
24. Jenny
25. Tiril (Tirill)
26. Lilly (Lily)
27. Hedda
28. Aurora
29. Maria
30. Marie
31. Tuva
32. Oda
33. Elise
34. Mie
35. Eline
36. Selma
37. Alma
38. Celine (Seline)
39. Mina
40. Live
41. Pernille
42. Amanda
43. Malin
44. Julia
45. Sigrid
46. Mathea
47. Isabell (Isabel)
48. Martine (Marthine)
49. Astrid (Astri)
50. Natalie (Nathalie)

Comments

[halliwell66.livejournal.com]

This top 50's is much more my style than what Australia offers, but our accent would butcher quite a few.

I especially love Matias/Mathias/Matheo, I grew up with way too many boys called Matt. Mathea for a girl is very nice too.

And Nora is lovely, its almost unheard of here its around #400

[saltskin.livejournal.com]

I agree. Would love to use a few of these for future babies but cannot imagine even relatives being able to pronounce them properly, let alone school teachers and friends!

[bambiblake007.livejournal.com]

about 90% of the girls names are ones i'd actually use. and tbh a lot of the boys names are in my faves too. Emma and Lucas are definitely in the top running atm altho Emma would be a nn for Emerson which is a name i absolutely love for a lil girl :)

[bambiblake007.livejournal.com]

i kno a Nora irl. it's a very lovely name and suits her quite well :)

my mom's name is Zora and ppl are forever calling her everything from Nora to Laura and she hates it!!

[bambiblake007.livejournal.com]

aww my name is on there :) just when you think Amanda is forever an 80s fad lol. no but seriously i think Amanda gets a really bad rep bc every x you tell someone ur an Amanda they automatically think "oh well ur a biatch"..atleast that's wat i've encountered in the states pretty much my entire life ::sigh::

i was named Amanda bc it was a family name. my mom had never heard either of my names til she met my mamaw, really (Amanda Katherine) which i think is really cool now that i'm older bc she took a trendy name like Amanda and paired it with a traditional name like Katherine and now i have actual friends who are envious of my name..a couple have told me so, the same ones who were born in the 80s and given female versions of their father's name and what-not. and my mamaw had been given her name in the early 1900s..after both of her grandmothers who had been given them in the 1800s!! soo yep imo i totally lucked out in the given name dept :) thank god she didnt name wat she almost did Amanda Michelle lol. while it'd still been salvagable with the nn possibilities, it'd been one big 80s horror movie waiting to happen, if ya ask me ;-)

i think it's funny to c my daddy's name on there too. Herman. i'm partial to it bc it's my daddy's name but it's not a name i c very often and it's not a name i would normally use on a child (hubby and i have agreed that Wilton, my daddy's middle name, might be used to honor him on a boy one day and i just like Wilton better probably bc of the easy nn of Wil if it came down to it and to me Wilton just flows better)

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

Amanda is actually my #1 girls name :)

[bambiblake007.livejournal.com]

it'd be nice to c it make a return into the states and not be treated with such distaste.

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I unfortunately think most of the 80s super popular names might take a while to have a decent return. I'm Norwegian and I'm happy to see it ranked at 42. Last year it was 33, and I'd prefer it to not get into the top 10 like ever hahaha. But it's a beautiful name that I've liked for 14 years now. Can't imagine having a daughter and name her something else.

[bambiblake007.livejournal.com]

Amber seems to be making a bit of a comeback even if only with Amberleigh and it's variations. it was a very popular name in the 80s as well. my gf has a popular name too (altho it might be more early 90s) with Brittany, and it seems to be growing again. i can name a few lil girls with the name, my ex bestie having one of those lol.