Agnethe

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Agnethe: Recorded since 1945, it reached #273 in 1981, and it stood at #471 in 2020.

1registrar recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
76years from first to last
#273highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Norway · Girls

Falling

among girls in Norway · 1945–2020

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Norway · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1945	#319
1950	#381
1957	#441
1962	#433
1963	#489
1965	#479
1966	#457
1967	#484
1968	#413
1970	#469
1971	#508
1972	#380
1973	#437
1974	#413
1975	#384
1976	#311
1977	#325
1978	#452
1979	#331
1980	#318
1981	#273
1982	#291
1983	#352
1984	#536
1985	#432
1986	#403
1987	#511
1988	#549
1989	#512
1990	#358
1991	#533
1992	#372
1993	#515
1994	#397
1995	#402
1996	#616
1997	#542
1998	#483
1999	#451
2001	#366
2002	#486
2003	#576
2004	#557
2007	#580
2008	#435
2009	#362
2010	#580
2015	#475
2018	#441
2020	#471

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 50 of the 76 years from 1945 to 2020.

Official data for Norway, 1945–2020 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #319 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2020
Highest recorded position: #273 among girls in Norway, in 1981 (recorded 1945–2020).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2020
Most recently recorded at #471 among girls in Norway, in 2020.
Norway · Girls

Agnethe 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 Agnethe in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	6	1 of 10	6
1950s	8	2 of 10	4
1960s	31	6 of 10	5
1970s	88	10 of 10	9
1980sbusiest	100	10 of 10	10
1990s	75	10 of 10	8
2000s	48	7 of 10	7
2010s	16	3 of 10	5
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Agnethe 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 2020. Highest recorded position: #273 in Norway in 1981.

Agnethe'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
2020	Norway	female	#471	4	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#441	6	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#475	6	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#580	4	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#362	12	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#435	8	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#580	4	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#557	4	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#486	6	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#366	10	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#451	7	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#483	6	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#542	5	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#616	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#402	9	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#397	9	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#515	6	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#372	11	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#533	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#358	12	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#512	7	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#549	6	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#511	7	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#403	10	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#432	9	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#536	6	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#352	11	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#291	15	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#273	16	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#318	13	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#331	12	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#452	7	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#325	12	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#311	13	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#384	9	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#413	8	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#437	7	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#380	9	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#508	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#469	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#413	7	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#484	5	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#457	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#479	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#489	4	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#433	5	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#441	4	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#381	4	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#319	6	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 2020, ranked in 50 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #273, first reached in 1981.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in Norway in 1981.

Its record falls into 11 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

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.

Agnes · #39, 81y
Agnete · #236, 53y
Agnieszka · #64, 47y
Ågot · #235, 19y

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.

Ingerid · #270, 53y
Ingelin · #269, 51y
Hogne · #264, 46y
Irmelin · #255, 52y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Gert · #273, 23y
Hans-Petter · #273, 39y
Inghild · #273, 32y
Narve · #273, 29y

Agnethe was ranked #273 in Norway · Girls in 1981. 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.

Agnethe 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 Agnethe without appearing here.

Agnethe moved ahead of

Judith Compare
In 2008 they stood at #580 and #564 in Norway · Girls; by 2009 that had become #362 and #603.
Jacqueline Compare
In 1994 they stood at #515 and #452 in Norway · Girls; by 1995 that had become #402 and #634.
Kirsten Compare
In 2008 they stood at #576 and #424 in Norway · Girls; by 2009 that had become #362 and #565.
Kim Compare
In 2007 they stood at #576 and #460 in Norway · Girls; by 2008 that had become #435 and #600.

Moved ahead of Agnethe

Iben Compare
In 1995 they stood at #402 and #450 in Norway · Girls; by 1996 that had become #616 and #307.
Elizabeth Compare
In 2009 they stood at #362 and #371 in Norway · Girls; by 2010 that had become #580 and #285.
Oda Compare
In 1983 they stood at #352 and #423 in Norway · Girls; by 1984 that had become #536 and #245.
Natalie Compare
In 1983 they stood at #352 and #422 in Norway · Girls; by 1984 that had become #536 and #258.

Moved the opposite way to Agnethe

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Agnethe went from #319 to #471 while Ada went from #229 to #10.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Agnethe went from #319 to #471 while Alma went from #293 to #15.
Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Agnethe went from #319 to #471 while Anna went from #38 to #14.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Agnethe went from #319 to #471 while Elise went from #223 to #51.

Moved the same way as Agnethe

Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Agnethe went from #319 to #471 and Anne from #1 to #127.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Agnethe went from #319 to #471 and Åse from #25 to #107.
Astrid Compare
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Agnethe went from #319 to #471 and Astrid from #12 to #27.
Christine Compare
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Agnethe went from #319 to #471 and Christine from #253 to #479.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2020. Highest recorded position: #273 in Norway in 1981. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Agnethe

Agnethe at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Agnethe by decade in Norway · Girls

Agnethe appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Agnethe

Agnethe and the names beside it

Agnethe moved ahead of

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Agnethe at a glance

Agnethe by decade in Norway · Girls

Agnethe appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Agnethe

Agnethe and the names beside it

Agnethe moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Agnethe

Moved the opposite way to Agnethe

Moved the same way as Agnethe