Svend

maleStatistical record

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

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

Svend: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #154, and it was last ranked in 2000.

1registrar recorded it
52times a registrar ranked it
56years from first to last
#154highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Norway · Boys

Falling

among boys in Norway · 1945–2000

View as table

Norway · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1945	#169
1946	#154
1947	#178
1948	#193
1949	#175
1950	#176
1951	#178
1952	#184
1953	#176
1954	#193
1955	#187
1956	#167
1957	#235
1958	#201
1959	#263
1960	#193
1961	#192
1962	#179
1963	#215
1964	#211
1965	#179
1966	#203
1967	#187
1968	#237
1969	#208
1970	#309
1971	#262
1972	#242
1973	#317
1974	#390
1975	#385
1976	#523
1977	#515
1978	#538
1979	#443
1980	#604
1981	#520
1982	#426
1983	#398
1984	#423
1985	#597
1987	#454
1989	#598
1990	#506
1991	#376
1992	#477
1993	#566
1994	#545
1996	#597
1997	#596
1998	#589
2000	#528

VerifiedSource: Statistics Norway (SSB) — Born Persons by First Name.Confidence: high.

See all Norway names · Source: Statistics Norway (SSB) — Born Persons by First Name

What the data shows

FallingNorway · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 52 of the 56 years from 1945 to 2000.

Official data for Norway, 1945–2000 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #169 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2000
Highest recorded position: #154 among boys in Norway, in 1946 (recorded 1945–2000).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2000
Most recently recorded at #528 among boys in Norway, in 2000.
Norway · Boys

Svend 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 Svend in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	126	5 of 10	25
1950s	209	10 of 10	21
1960s	248	10 of 10	25
1970s	116	10 of 10	12
1980s	62	8 of 10	8
1990s	47	8 of 10	6
2000s	5	1 of 10	5

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 25 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Svend appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for Norway from 1945 to 2000. Highest recorded position: #154 in Norway in 1946.

Svend'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
2000	Norway	male	#528	5	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#589	4	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#596	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#597	4	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#545	5	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#566	5	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#477	7	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#376	11	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#506	7	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#598	5	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#454	9	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#597	5	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#423	10	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#398	11	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#426	10	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#520	7	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#604	5	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#443	9	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#538	6	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#515	6	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#523	6	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#385	11	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#390	11	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#317	14	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#242	21	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#262	18	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#309	14	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#208	27	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#237	19	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#187	30	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#203	26	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#179	30	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#211	21	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#215	21	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#179	27	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#192	24	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#193	23	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#263	13	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#201	19	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#235	15	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#167	28	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#187	21	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#193	20	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#176	25	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#184	21	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#178	23	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#176	24	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#175	23	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#193	20	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#178	25	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#154	33	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#169	25	High	Verified

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 1 registrar between 1945 and 2000, ranked in 52 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #154, first reached in 1946.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 33 births, registered in Norway in 1946.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

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.

Sveinung · #128, 66y
Sven · #69, 81y
Svenn · #137, 53y
Sverre · #29, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Nicolay · #151, 48y
Beathe · #159, 47y
Oddgeir · #160, 48y
Gjertrud · #162, 55y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Arna · #154, 34y
Elisabet · #154, 68y
Norma · #154, 56y
Alfhild · #153, 24y

Svend was ranked #154 in Norway · Boys in 1946. 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.

Svend 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 Svend without appearing here.

Svend moved ahead of

Kåre Compare
In 1999 they stood at #589 and #431 in Norway · Boys; by 2000 that had become #528 and #555.

Moved ahead of Svend

Matthew Compare
In 1979 they stood at #443 and #505 in Norway · Boys; by 1980 that had become #604 and #281.
Elias Compare
In 1988 they stood at #454 and #487 in Norway · Boys; by 1989 that had become #598 and #328.
Herman Compare
In 1984 they stood at #423 and #465 in Norway · Boys; by 1985 that had become #597 and #333.
Mathias Compare
In 1975 they stood at #385 and #402 in Norway · Boys; by 1976 that had become #523 and #259.

Moved the opposite way to Svend

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Svend went from #169 to #528 while Aksel went from #174 to #104.
Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Svend went from #169 to #528 while Anders went from #55 to #33.
Andreas Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Svend went from #169 to #528 while Andreas went from #140 to #3.
Christian Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Svend went from #169 to #528 while Christian went from #161 to #29.

Moved the same way as Svend

Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Svend went from #169 to #528 and Alfred from #127 to #389.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Svend went from #169 to #528 and Arild from #32 to #266.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Svend went from #169 to #528 and Arne from #6 to #166.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Svend went from #169 to #528 and Arthur from #153 to #228.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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.

Recorded in official data for Norway from 1945 to 2000. Highest recorded position: #154 in Norway in 1946. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Svend

Svend at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Svend by decade in Norway · Boys

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Svend at a glance

Svend by decade in Norway · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

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Svend moved ahead of

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