Catherine vs Vigdis

Head to head

Ranks are only compared within one published list and one year. Two ranks from different years, from a boys' and a girls' list, or from different registrars are not comparable, so they are not placed side by side.

• Norway · Girls

  In 1997, Catherine was ranked #552 and Vigdis #592 among girls in Norway.

Catherine and Vigdis over time

Catherine and Vigdis appear together in 1 published list, across 41 years of shared records. Vigdis held the stronger position in more years in 1 of them, Catherine in 0.

The order between them changed and held in one of those lists — a change in that published list, never a claim that one name displaced the other.

Vigdis reached its own highest recorded position earlier in 1 of those lists, and Catherine in none. Each position is a place inside its own list, so this compares when they peaked and never how high.

Counted list by list. Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale in the same year, so those comparisons are real — but positions from different lists are not, so nothing here is combined into an overall standing.

List by list

• Norway · Girls41 shared years, 1947–1997

  Catherine held the stronger position in 7 of those years, Vigdis in 34.

  Highest recorded here: Catherine #196 in 1972, Vigdis #21 in 1954.

  The order changed in 1993: Catherine moved ahead. In 1992 they stood at #497 and #454; by 1993 that had become #444 and #676.

  Most recent shared year, 1997: Catherine #552, Vigdis #592.

Two names moving past each other in a ranking is a fact about the ranking. Namewise does not claim one name displaced the other, that families chose between them, or that either influenced the other — none of that is in this data.

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Comparisons that share a name, a rule or a published list with this one. Each is an existing comparison page with its own evidence — nothing here says these pairs are alike.

Side by side

How each name got here