Geir vs Toralf

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 · Boys

  In 2015, Geir was ranked #518 and Toralf #506 among boys in Norway.

Geir and Toralf over time

Geir and Toralf appear together in 1 published list, across 38 years of shared records. Geir held the stronger position in more years in 1 of them, Toralf 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.

Toralf reached its own highest recorded position earlier in 1 of those lists, and Geir 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 · Boys38 shared years, 1945–2015

  Geir held the stronger position in 37 of those years, Toralf in 1.

  Highest recorded here: Geir #2 in 1963, Toralf #183 in 1949.

  The order changed in 2015: Toralf moved ahead. In 2014 they stood at #405 and #532; by 2015 that had become #518 and #506.

  Most recent shared year, 2015: Geir #518, Toralf #506.

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.

Where to go next

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