Mette

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mette: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mette: Recorded since 1945, it reached #11 in 1963, and it was last ranked in 2012.

2registrars recorded it
67times a registrar ranked it
68years from first to last
#11highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for
4names it appears alongside

What stands out in Mette's record

Held a top-100 place for 46 years running. Names by top-100 run
Shares a published list with another name across 65 years. Longest shared records

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2003–2007

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2003	#4373
2007	#5201

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 65 of the 68 years from 1945 to 2012.

In 2007: #458 among girls in Norway, #5201 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2012 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #57 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2012
Highest recorded position: #11 among girls in Norway, in 1963 (recorded 1945–2012).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2012
Most recently recorded at #542 among girls in Norway, in 2012.
Norway · Girls

Mette appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 65 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 9,783 births with the name.

Mette across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mette's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#57 (1945)	#11 (1963)	#542 (2012)	65 of 68	9,783 (1945–2012)	506 (1964)
England and Wales · Girls	#4373 (2003)	#4373 (2003)	#5201 (2007)	2 of 5	6 (2003–2007)	3 (2003)

Mette by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mette in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	575	5 of 10	115
1950s	1,917	10 of 10	192
1960sbusiest	3,970	10 of 10	397
1970s	1,949	10 of 10	195
1980s	858	10 of 10	86
1990s	428	10 of 10	43
2000s	77	8 of 10	10
2010s	9	2 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1960s were its busiest decade, averaging 397 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1962 and 1963, when recorded births rose by 114, from 375 to 489.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Mette appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2012. Highest recorded position: #11 in Norway in 1963.

Mette's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#542	5	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#602	4	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#450	8	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#458	8	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#463	7	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#539	5	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#558	5	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#423	8	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#356	11	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#209	25	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#249	18	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#216	23	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#178	34	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#170	35	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#169	38	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#160	41	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#141	49	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#159	42	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#129	60	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#95	88	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#97	79	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#98	77	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#98	73	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#98	73	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#85	82	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#95	76	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#82	88	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#74	99	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#86	88	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#59	123	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#55	132	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#63	124	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#49	147	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#49	149	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#47	173	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#39	200	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#38	212	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#30	243	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#29	283	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#30	286	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#24	347	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#21	384	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#21	382	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#17	436	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#15	468	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#15	506	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#11	489	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#18	375	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#25	304	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#28	279	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#32	269	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#37	249	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#46	211	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#44	240	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#47	205	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#44	206	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#54	152	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#53	136	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#50	133	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#57	116	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#58	109	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#58	105	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#55	123	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#51	133	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#57	105	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2012, ranked in 65 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #11, first reached in 1963.

It held a top-100 place in 46 years, 46 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 506 births, registered in Norway in 1964.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 58 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Metehan · #2266, 12y
Mhairi · #351, 25y
Mia · #2, 69y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Isak · #4, 66y
Malin · #3, 60y
Bente · #2, 62y
Mikkel · #28, 70y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Eirik · #11, 81y
Kristoffer · #11, 80y
Mari · #11, 81y
Simen · #11, 73y

Comparisons involving Mette

Existing comparison pages where Mette and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Mette in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Elisabeth vs Mette
In 1945 they stood at #50 and #57 in Norway · Girls, 7 places apart; by 2012 they were #157 and #542.
Elisabeth · Mette · 65 shared years, 1945–2012 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2012 Norway ranking
Liv vs Mette
Liv and Mette changed places 12 times in Norway · Girls between 1945 and 2012, ending at #113 and #542.
Liv · Mette · 65 shared years, 1945–2012 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2012 Norway ranking
Mette vs Trude
Mette and Trude changed places 12 times in Norway · Girls between 1946 and 2005, ending at #463 and #570.
Mette · Trude · 59 shared years, 1946–2005 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2005 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

Pairs involving Mette measured in Norway's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Mette at its highest position.

Mette vs Vibeke
Mette and Vibeke changed places 12 times in Norway · Girls between 1945 and 2008, ending at #450 and #458.
Mette · Vibeke · 63 shared years, 1945–2008 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2008 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Mette was ranked #11 in Norway · Girls in 1963. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Mette and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mette without appearing here.

Mette moved ahead of

Bjørg Compare
In 2006 they stood at #539 and #469 in Norway · Girls; by 2007 that had become #458 and #549.
Gunn Compare
In 2004 they stood at #558 and #548 in Norway · Girls; by 2005 that had become #463 and #546.
Randi Compare
In 2011 they stood at #602 and #414 in Norway · Girls; by 2012 that had become #542 and #598.
Turid Compare
In 2007 they stood at #539 and #502 in Norway · Girls; by 2008 that had become #450 and #490.

Moved ahead of Mette

Josephine Compare
In 2002 they stood at #423 and #621 in Norway · Girls; by 2003 that had become #558 and #329.
Abigail Compare
In 2009 they stood at #458 and #463 in Norway · Girls; by 2010 that had become #602 and #397.
Hedvig Compare
In 2000 they stood at #209 and #248 in Norway · Girls; by 2001 that had become #356 and #175.
Isabelle Compare
In 2000 they stood at #209 and #240 in Norway · Girls; by 2001 that had become #356 and #181.

Moved the opposite way to Mette

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Mette went from #57 to #542 while Ada went from #229 to #51.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Mette went from #57 to #542 while Alma went from #293 to #38.
Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Mette went from #57 to #542 while Anna went from #38 to #8.
Cecilie Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Mette went from #57 to #542 while Cecilie went from #359 to #215.

Moved the same way as Mette

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Mette went from #57 to #542 and Anita from #162 to #330.
Ann Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Mette went from #57 to #542 and Ann from #82 to #355.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Mette went from #57 to #542 and Anne from #1 to #97.
Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Mette went from #57 to #542 and Annie from #180 to #301.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2012. Highest recorded position: #11 in Norway in 1963. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Mette

Mette at a glance

What stands out in Mette's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mette across 2 official records

Mette by decade in Norway · Girls

Mette appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Mette

Longest shared records

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Mette

Mette and the names beside it

Mette moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Mette

Moved the opposite way to Mette

Moved the same way as Mette

Mette at a glance

What stands out in Mette's record

Mette across 2 official records

Mette by decade in Norway · Girls

Mette appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Mette

Longest shared records

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Mette

Mette and the names beside it

Mette moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Mette

Moved the opposite way to Mette

Moved the same way as Mette