Brit

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Brit: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #26, and it was last ranked in 2002.

1registrar recorded it
53times a registrar ranked it
58years from first to last
#26highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Brit's record

Held a top-100 place for 25 years running. Names by top-100 run

Norway · Girls

Falling

among girls in Norway · 1945–2002

View as table

Norway · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1945	#26
1946	#34
1947	#36
1948	#34
1949	#32
1950	#33
1951	#31
1952	#37
1953	#41
1954	#42
1955	#43
1956	#46
1957	#55
1958	#54
1959	#54
1960	#67
1961	#60
1962	#72
1963	#75
1964	#75
1965	#72
1966	#78
1967	#82
1968	#95
1969	#99
1970	#108
1971	#137
1972	#117
1973	#163
1974	#151
1975	#201
1976	#177
1977	#181
1978	#176
1979	#296
1980	#233
1981	#469
1982	#197
1983	#279
1984	#358
1985	#390
1986	#309
1987	#386
1988	#330
1990	#469
1991	#499
1992	#638
1994	#616
1996	#561
1997	#600
1999	#495
2000	#584
2002	#600

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 53 of the 58 years from 1945 to 2002.

Official data for Norway, 1945–2002 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #26 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2002
Highest recorded position: #26 among girls in Norway, in 1945 (recorded 1945–2002).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2002
Most recently recorded at #600 among girls in Norway, in 2002.
Norway · Girls

Brit 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 Brit in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	1,320	5 of 10	264
1950s	2,086	10 of 10	209
1960s	1,050	10 of 10	105
1970s	370	10 of 10	37
1980s	133	9 of 10	15
1990s	38	7 of 10	5
2000s	8	2 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 264 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1956 and 1957, when recorded births fell by 46, from 218 to 172.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Brit 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 2002. Highest recorded position: #26 in Norway in 1945.

Brit'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
2002	Norway	female	#600	4	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#584	4	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#495	6	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#600	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#561	5	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#616	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#638	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#499	7	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#469	8	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#330	14	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#386	11	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#309	15	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#390	11	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#358	12	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#279	16	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#197	26	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#469	7	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#233	21	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#296	14	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#176	30	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#181	30	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#177	29	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#201	24	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#151	43	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#163	35	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#117	59	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#137	43	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#108	63	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#99	72	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#95	74	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#82	94	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#78	98	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#72	110	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#75	105	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#75	101	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#72	112	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#60	153	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#67	131	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#54	160	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#54	163	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#55	172	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#46	218	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#43	218	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#42	223	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#41	207	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#37	223	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#31	244	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#33	258	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#32	261	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#34	260	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#36	235	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#34	269	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#26	295	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 2002, ranked in 53 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #26, first reached in 1945.

It held a top-100 place in 25 years, 25 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 295 births, registered in Norway in 1945.

Its record falls into 6 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.

Brion · #290, 14y
Briony · #334, 29y
Brita · #101, 62y
Brith · #135, 25y

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.

Britt · #28, 55y
Christoffer · #29, 57y
Gry · #31, 57y
Oda · #21, 50y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Iver · #26, 78y
Julia · #26, 70y
Siri · #26, 81y
Yvonne · #26, 76y

Brit was ranked #26 in Norway · Girls in 1945. 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.

Brit 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 Brit without appearing here.

Brit moved ahead of

Reidun Compare
In 2001 they stood at #584 and #568 in Norway · Girls; by 2002 that had become #600 and #637.
Gerd Compare
In 1999 they stood at #616 and #517 in Norway · Girls; by 2000 that had become #584 and #593.

Moved ahead of Brit

Amy Compare
In 1991 they stood at #469 and #549 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #638 and #304.
Patricia Compare
In 1991 they stood at #499 and #618 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #638 and #359.
Lara Compare
In 1999 they stood at #495 and #520 in Norway · Girls; by 2000 that had become #584 and #311.
Amalie Compare
In 1989 they stood at #330 and #364 in Norway · Girls; by 1990 that had become #469 and #203.

Moved the opposite way to Brit

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Brit went from #26 to #600 while Ada went from #229 to #120.
Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Brit went from #26 to #600 while Anna went from #38 to #13.
Cecilie Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Brit went from #26 to #600 while Cecilie went from #359 to #74.
Christine Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Brit went from #26 to #600 while Christine went from #253 to #97.

Moved the same way as Brit

Ann Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Brit went from #26 to #600 and Ann from #82 to #185.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Brit went from #26 to #600 and Anne from #1 to #47.
Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Brit went from #26 to #600 and Annie from #180 to #341.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Brit went from #26 to #600 and Åse from #25 to #264.

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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 2002. Highest recorded position: #26 in Norway in 1945. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Brit

Brit at a glance

What stands out in Brit's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Brit by decade in Norway · Girls

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Brit at a glance

What stands out in Brit's record

Brit by decade in Norway · Girls

Brit 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 Brit

Brit and the names beside it

Brit moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Brit

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