Harald

maleStatistical record

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

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

Harald: Recorded every year since 1945, its highest recorded position is #8, and it stood at #109 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
89times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#8highest recorded position
21groupings it qualifies for
57names it appears alongside

What stands out in Harald's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 36 years running. Names by top-100 run
Appears alongside 57 other names across 5 kinds of recorded relationship. All recorded relationships
Shares a published list with another name across 81 years. Longest shared records

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2859
1998	#2901
2006	#4052
2015	#4747
2021	#4789
2022	#3449
2023	#4991
2024	#3254

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #119 among boys in Norway, #3254 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #8 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #8 among boys in Norway, in 1945 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #109 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Harald appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 12,332 births with the name.

Harald 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.

Harald'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 · Boys	#8 (1945)	#8 (1945)	#109 (2025)	81 of 81	12,332 (1945–2025)	662 (1945)
England and Wales · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#2859 (1997)	#3254 (2024)	8 of 28	29 (1997–2024)	6 (2024)

Harald by decade in Norway · Boys

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 Harald in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	2,738	5 of 10	548
1950s	3,201	10 of 10	320
1960s	2,613	10 of 10	261
1970s	1,339	10 of 10	134
1980s	726	10 of 10	73
1990s	614	10 of 10	61
2000s	426	10 of 10	43
2010s	371	10 of 10	37
2020s	304	6 of 10	51

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 548 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Harald 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 2025. Highest recorded position: #8 in Norway in 1945.

Harald'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
2024	England and Wales	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#109	60	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#119	48	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#109	56	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#118	49	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#108	56	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#135	35	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#132	44	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#143	43	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#140	44	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#186	30	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#141	46	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#202	28	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#159	39	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#188	31	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#166	37	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#188	29	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#185	33	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#128	57	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#158	41	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#157	41	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#197	27	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#157	41	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#189	29	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#153	39	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#119	57	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#119	61	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#125	54	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#112	65	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#113	65	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#108	71	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#111	63	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#133	51	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#126	55	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#107	67	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#115	64	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#128	59	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#114	68	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#114	73	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#155	48	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#143	55	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#116	71	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#111	73	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#92	89	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#90	87	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#106	74	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#91	88	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#75	105	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#80	99	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#82	96	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#82	100	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#59	131	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#63	139	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#60	139	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#59	146	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#51	176	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#48	208	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#41	236	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#40	248	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#38	252	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#35	264	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#37	262	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#35	275	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#35	258	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#32	274	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#31	269	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#29	275	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#34	255	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#26	298	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#27	294	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#28	302	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#25	331	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#31	280	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#24	338	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#23	346	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#21	340	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#15	417	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#14	434	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#12	506	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#11	528	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#11	608	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#8	662	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 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #8, first reached in 1945.

It held a top-100 place in 38 years, 36 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 662 births, registered in Norway in 1945.

1 registrar ranked it inside their own top 10.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 52 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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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.

Espen · #8, 81y
Ellinor · #7, 81y
Hanne · #9, 80y
Gunnar · #10, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Alexander · #8, 77y
Annie · #8, 81y
Anthony · #8, 77y
Espen · #8, 81y

Comparisons involving Harald

Existing comparison pages where Harald 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 Harald in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Harald vs Rolf
In 1945 they stood at #8 and #15 in Norway · Boys, 7 places apart; by 2025 they were #109 and #437.
Harald · Rolf · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Odd vs Harald
In 1945 they stood at #9 and #8 in Norway · Boys, 1 places apart; by 2025 they were #413 and #109.
Odd · Harald · 80 shared years, 1945–2025 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Aksel vs Harald
Aksel and Harald were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #25 and #109.
Aksel · Harald · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

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

Anders vs Harald
Anders and Harald were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #293 and #109.
Anders · Harald · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Andreas vs Harald
Andreas and Harald were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #96 and #109.
Andreas · Harald · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Arne vs Harald
Arne and Harald were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #222 and #109.
Arne · Harald · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Harald was ranked #8 in Norway · Boys in 1945. 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.

Harald 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 Harald without appearing here.

Harald moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4991 and #4991 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #5119.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4991 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #5119.
Aria Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3449 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #4270.
Brett Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4991 and #3523 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #4270.

Moved ahead of Harald

Leo Compare
In 2002 they stood at #153 and #174 in Norway · Boys; by 2003 that had become #189 and #125.
Henry Compare
In 2013 they stood at #159 and #173 in Norway · Boys; by 2014 that had become #202 and #139.
Sander Compare
In 1993 they stood at #126 and #131 in Norway · Boys; by 1994 that had become #133 and #71.
Gustav Compare
In 2004 they stood at #157 and #166 in Norway · Boys; by 2005 that had become #197 and #136.

Moved the opposite way to Harald

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Harald went from #8 to #109 while Aksel went from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Harald went from #8 to #109 while Alfred went from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Harald went from #8 to #109 while Arthur went from #153 to #83.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Harald went from #8 to #109 while Daniel went from #280 to #66.

Moved the same way as Harald

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Harald went from #8 to #109 and Anders from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Harald went from #8 to #109 and Arild from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Harald went from #8 to #109 and Arne from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Harald went from #8 to #109 and Bjørn from #3 to #56.

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 2025. Highest recorded position: #8 in Norway in 1945. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Harald

Harald at a glance

What stands out in Harald's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Harald across 2 official records

Harald by decade in Norway · Boys

Harald 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 Harald

Longest shared records

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Harald

Harald and the names beside it

Harald moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Harald

Moved the opposite way to Harald

Moved the same way as Harald

Harald at a glance

What stands out in Harald's record

Harald across 2 official records

Harald by decade in Norway · Boys

Harald 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 Harald

Longest shared records

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Harald

Harald and the names beside it

Harald moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Harald

Moved the opposite way to Harald

Moved the same way as Harald