Barbro

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Barbro: Recorded since 1945, it reached #117 in 1967, and it was last ranked in 1999.

1registrar recorded it
52times a registrar ranked it
55years from first to last
#117highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Norway · Girls

Falling

among girls in Norway · 1945–1999

View as table

Norway · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1945	#230
1946	#261
1947	#253
1948	#234
1949	#197
1950	#196
1951	#215
1952	#267
1953	#265
1954	#208
1955	#195
1956	#209
1957	#176
1958	#159
1959	#174
1960	#159
1961	#214
1962	#194
1963	#202
1964	#217
1965	#180
1966	#147
1967	#117
1968	#127
1969	#144
1970	#126
1971	#162
1972	#153
1973	#143
1974	#150
1975	#170
1976	#166
1977	#187
1978	#162
1979	#207
1980	#334
1981	#240
1982	#292
1983	#261
1984	#301
1985	#412
1986	#382
1987	#476
1988	#479
1989	#440
1990	#505
1991	#396
1992	#583
1993	#622
1994	#432
1997	#458
1999	#544

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 52 of the 55 years from 1945 to 1999.

Official data for Norway, 1945–1999 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #230 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–1999
Highest recorded position: #117 among girls in Norway, in 1967 (recorded 1945–1999).
Norway · Girls
Most recent1999
Most recently recorded at #544 among girls in Norway, in 1999.
Norway · Girls

Barbro 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 Barbro in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	72	5 of 10	14
1950s	181	10 of 10	18
1960s	290	10 of 10	29
1970sbusiest	358	10 of 10	36
1980s	126	10 of 10	13
1990s	46	7 of 10	7

Across Norway · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade, averaging 36 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Barbro 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 1999. Highest recorded position: #117 in Norway in 1967.

Barbro'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
1999	Norway	female	#544	5	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#458	7	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#432	8	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#622	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#583	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#396	10	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#505	7	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#440	9	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#479	8	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#476	8	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#382	11	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#412	10	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#301	15	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#261	18	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#292	15	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#240	20	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#334	12	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#207	24	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#162	34	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#187	28	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#166	32	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#170	32	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#150	44	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#143	43	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#153	38	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#162	35	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#126	48	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#144	39	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#127	47	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#117	48	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#147	33	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#180	23	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#217	18	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#202	20	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#194	19	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#214	18	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#159	25	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#174	22	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#159	26	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#176	22	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#209	17	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#195	19	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#208	17	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#265	11	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#267	11	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#215	16	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#196	20	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#197	20	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#234	14	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#253	12	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#261	12	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#230	14	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 1999, ranked in 52 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #117, first reached in 1967.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 48 births, registered in Norway in 1967.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 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.

Barbara · #10, 79y
Barbora · #661, 17y
Bård · #62, 70y
Bareera · #1541, 18y

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.

Ingvar · #117, 55y
Leiv · #117, 48y
Arnstein · #116, 52y
Torfinn · #119, 50y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Asle · #117, 59y
Dagny · #117, 68y
Gard · #117, 69y
Inga · #117, 81y

Barbro was ranked #117 in Norway · Girls 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.

Barbro 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 Barbro without appearing here.

Barbro moved ahead of

Unni Compare
In 1996 they stood at #622 and #513 in Norway · Girls; by 1997 that had become #458 and #591.
Margaret Compare
In 1993 they stood at #583 and #560 in Norway · Girls; by 1994 that had become #432 and #528.
Gerd Compare
In 1993 they stood at #622 and #420 in Norway · Girls; by 1994 that had become #432 and #517.
Turid Compare
In 1996 they stood at #432 and #295 in Norway · Girls; by 1997 that had become #458 and #535.

Moved ahead of Barbro

Iben Compare
In 1992 they stood at #583 and #652 in Norway · Girls; by 1993 that had become #622 and #337.
Amy Compare
In 1991 they stood at #505 and #549 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #583 and #304.
Patricia Compare
In 1991 they stood at #396 and #618 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #583 and #359.
Tara Compare
In 1996 they stood at #432 and #602 in Norway · Girls; by 1997 that had become #458 and #237.

Moved the opposite way to Barbro

Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Girls, Barbro went from #230 to #544 while Anna went from #38 to #13.
Cecilie Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Girls, Barbro went from #230 to #544 while Cecilie went from #359 to #63.
Christine Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Girls, Barbro went from #230 to #544 while Christine went from #253 to #99.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Girls, Barbro went from #230 to #544 while Elise went from #223 to #29.

Moved the same way as Barbro

Ann Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Girls, Barbro went from #230 to #544 and Ann from #82 to #140.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Girls, Barbro went from #230 to #544 and Anne from #1 to #44.
Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Girls, Barbro went from #230 to #544 and Annie from #180 to #274.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Girls, Barbro went from #230 to #544 and Åse from #25 to #181.

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 1999. Highest recorded position: #117 in Norway in 1967. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Barbro

Barbro at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Barbro by decade in Norway · Girls

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Barbro at a glance

Barbro by decade in Norway · Girls

Barbro appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Barbro

Barbro and the names beside it

Barbro moved ahead of

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