Ask

maleStatistical record

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

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

Ask: Recorded every year since 1989, its highest recorded position is #77, reached in 2025.

1registrar recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
37years from first to last
#77highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Norway · Boys

Rising

among boys in Norway · 1989–2025

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Norway · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1989	#610
1990	#604
1991	#477
1992	#486
1993	#329
1994	#279
1995	#334
1996	#239
1997	#204
1998	#232
1999	#232
2000	#204
2001	#185
2002	#152
2003	#133
2004	#137
2005	#132
2006	#112
2007	#132
2008	#117
2009	#124
2010	#122
2011	#125
2012	#125
2013	#113
2014	#113
2015	#130
2016	#110
2017	#122
2018	#99
2019	#104
2020	#98
2021	#86
2022	#90
2023	#81
2024	#78
2025	#77

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

RisingNorway · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in every year from 1989 to 2025.

Official data for Norway, 1989–2025 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1989
First recorded at #610 among boys in Norway in 1989 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1989–2025
Highest recorded position: #77 among boys in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 1989–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #77 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Ask 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 Ask in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1980s	4	1 of 10	4
1990s	148	10 of 10	15
2000s	499	10 of 10	50
2010s	620	10 of 10	62
2020sbusiest	477	6 of 10	80

Across Norway · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 80 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ask 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 1989 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #77 in Norway in 2025.

Ask'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
2025	Norway	male	#77	90	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#78	88	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#81	90	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#90	76	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#86	74	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#98	59	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#104	62	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#99	75	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#122	56	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#110	68	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#130	51	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#113	61	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#113	63	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#125	59	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#125	62	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#122	63	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#124	61	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#117	66	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#132	54	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#112	69	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#132	52	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#137	52	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#133	49	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#152	39	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#185	31	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#204	26	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#232	21	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#232	22	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#204	26	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#239	21	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#334	12	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#279	17	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#329	12	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#486	6	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#477	7	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#604	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#610	4	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 1989 and 2025, ranked in 37 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #77, first reached in 2025.

It held a top-100 place in 7 years, 6 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 90 births, registered in Norway in 2023.

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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Aslak · #127, 81y
Aslan · #414, 20y

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.

Eldbjørg · #76, 39y
Ludvik · #79, 39y
Målfrid · #80, 41y
Tilde · #81, 33y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Chantelle · #78, 42y
Matilde · #76, 40y
Maggie · #79, 35y
Roise · #79, 29y

Ask was ranked #77 in Norway · Boys in 2025. 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.

Ask 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 Ask without appearing here.

Ask moved ahead of

Hugo Compare
In 1992 they stood at #486 and #425 in Norway · Boys; by 1993 that had become #329 and #598.
Steven Compare
In 1993 they stood at #329 and #292 in Norway · Boys; by 1994 that had become #279 and #544.
Roman Compare
In 1992 they stood at #486 and #384 in Norway · Boys; by 1993 that had become #329 and #563.
Anthony Compare
In 1992 they stood at #486 and #485 in Norway · Boys; by 1993 that had become #329 and #530.

Moved ahead of Ask

Matheo Compare
In 2008 they stood at #117 and #126 in Norway · Boys; by 2009 that had become #124 and #83.
Theo Compare
In 2004 they stood at #137 and #152 in Norway · Boys; by 2005 that had become #132 and #94.
Noah Compare
In 1998 they stood at #232 and #345 in Norway · Boys; by 1999 that had become #232 and #227.

Moved the opposite way to Ask

Alexander Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ask went from #610 to #77 while Alexander went from #12 to #81.
Anders Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ask went from #610 to #77 while Anders went from #8 to #293.
Andreas Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ask went from #610 to #77 while Andreas went from #2 to #96.
Arild Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ask went from #610 to #77 while Arild went from #172 to #489.

Moved the same way as Ask

Adam Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ask went from #610 to #77 and Adam from #110 to #29.
Aksel Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ask went from #610 to #77 and Aksel from #251 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ask went from #610 to #77 and Alfred from #568 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ask went from #610 to #77 and Arthur from #369 to #83.

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Recorded in official data for Norway from 1989 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #77 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

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Ask by decade in Norway · Boys

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Ask at a glance

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

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Ask moved ahead of

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