Bård

maleStatistical record

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

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

Bård: Recorded since 1945, it reached #62 in 1967, and it stood at #502 in 2023.

1registrar recorded it
70times a registrar ranked it
79years from first to last
#62highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Norway · Boys

Falling

among boys in Norway · 1945–2023

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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Norway · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1945	#128
1946	#164
1947	#152
1948	#153
1949	#171
1950	#136
1951	#148
1952	#157
1953	#161
1954	#127
1955	#108
1956	#127
1957	#117
1958	#88
1959	#93
1960	#87
1961	#95
1962	#73
1963	#82
1964	#76
1965	#70
1966	#63
1967	#62
1968	#73
1969	#74
1970	#65
1971	#72
1972	#67
1973	#71
1974	#78
1975	#84
1976	#77
1977	#94
1978	#97
1979	#92
1980	#104
1981	#122
1982	#150
1983	#130
1984	#133
1985	#147
1986	#138
1987	#139
1988	#143
1989	#146
1990	#146
1991	#194
1992	#189
1993	#145
1994	#176
1995	#179
1996	#204
1997	#218
1998	#226
1999	#246
2000	#257
2001	#222
2002	#287
2003	#289
2004	#349
2005	#300
2006	#393
2009	#540
2010	#445
2011	#489
2012	#500
2016	#516
2017	#470
2020	#447
2023	#502

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 70 of the 79 years from 1945 to 2023.

Official data for Norway, 1945–2023 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #128 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2023
Highest recorded position: #62 among boys in Norway, in 1967 (recorded 1945–2023).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #502 among boys in Norway, in 2023.
Norway · Boys

Bård 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 Bård in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	159	5 of 10	32
1950s	478	10 of 10	48
1960sbusiest	1,114	10 of 10	111
1970s	1,069	10 of 10	107
1980s	569	10 of 10	57
1990s	328	10 of 10	33
2000s	100	8 of 10	13
2010s	26	5 of 10	5
2020s	8	2 of 10	4

Across Norway · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade, averaging 111 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1957 and 1958, when recorded births rose by 37, from 49 to 86.

See the names Norway has recorded the most births with →

Bård appears in

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

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for Norway from 1945 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #62 in Norway in 1967.

Bård'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
2023	Norway	male	#502	4	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#447	4	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#470	5	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#516	4	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#500	5	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#489	5	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#445	7	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#540	4	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#393	8	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#300	12	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#349	9	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#289	13	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#287	13	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#222	23	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#257	18	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#246	18	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#226	23	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#218	24	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#204	27	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#179	34	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#176	36	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#145	46	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#189	34	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#194	33	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#146	53	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#146	49	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#143	55	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#139	53	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#138	56	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#147	50	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#133	55	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#130	59	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#150	49	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#122	63	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#104	80	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#92	86	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#97	81	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#94	82	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#77	102	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#84	101	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#78	109	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#71	121	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#67	133	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#72	122	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#65	132	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#74	125	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#73	123	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#62	139	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#63	138	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#70	123	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#76	108	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#82	94	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#73	106	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#95	75	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#87	83	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#93	74	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#88	86	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#117	49	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#127	45	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#108	56	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#127	41	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#161	29	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#157	30	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#148	31	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#136	37	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#171	25	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#153	32	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#152	34	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#164	29	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#128	39	High	Verified

Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

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

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1945 and 2023, ranked in 70 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #62, first reached in 1967.

It held a top-100 place in 22 years, 22 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 139 births, registered in Norway in 1967.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 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.

Barbora · #661, 18y
Barbro · #117, 52y
Bareera · #1541, 19y
Bareerah · #1788, 21y

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.

Lill · #63, 68y
Willy · #63, 67y
Vebjørn · #60, 65y
Rikke · #57, 69y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Birgit · #62, 62y
Eric · #62, 76y
Jill · #62, 71y
Aslaug · #63, 52y

Bård was ranked #62 in Norway · Boys in 1967. 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.

Johnny#58
Einar#59
Kenneth#60
Thor#61
Eirik#63
Inge#64
Jens#65
Kai#66

Bård 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 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Bård without appearing here.

Bård moved ahead of

Roger
In 1992 they stood at #189 and #181 in Norway · Boys; by 1993 that had become #145 and #231.
Harry
In 1957 they stood at #117 and #112 in Norway · Boys; by 1958 that had become #88 and #116.
Odd
In 2019 they stood at #470 and #305 in Norway · Boys; by 2020 that had become #447 and #470.
Stig
In 2015 they stood at #500 and #458 in Norway · Boys; by 2016 that had become #516 and #538.

Moved ahead of Bård

Jack
In 2010 they stood at #445 and #504 in Norway · Boys; by 2011 that had become #489 and #289.
Ryan
In 2008 they stood at #300 and #401 in Norway · Boys; by 2009 that had become #540 and #353.
Jonah
In 2005 they stood at #300 and #387 in Norway · Boys; by 2006 that had become #393 and #229.
Charlie
In 2008 they stood at #349 and #549 in Norway · Boys; by 2009 that had become #540 and #381.

Moved the opposite way to Bård

Aksel
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Bård went from #128 to #502 while Aksel went from #174 to #25.
Alfred
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Bård went from #128 to #502 while Alfred went from #127 to #18.
Andreas
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Bård went from #128 to #502 while Andreas went from #140 to #55.
Arthur
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Bård went from #128 to #502 while Arthur went from #153 to #86.

Moved the same way as Bård

Anders
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Bård went from #128 to #502 and Anders from #55 to #189.
Arild
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Bård went from #128 to #502 and Arild from #32 to #498.
Arne
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Bård went from #128 to #502 and Arne from #6 to #210.
Bjørn
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Bård went from #128 to #502 and Bjørn from #3 to #82.

What is known about Bård

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 1 official registrar, 1945–2023.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 2023. Highest recorded position: #62 in Norway in 1967. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Bård

Bård at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bård by decade in Norway · Boys

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Bård at a glance

Bård by decade in Norway · Boys

Bård appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

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