Edvard

maleStatistical record

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

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

Edvard: Recorded since 1945, it reached #59 in 2018, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
84times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#59highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2010–2019

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2010	#4678
2016	#3079
2017	#4812
2019	#3411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 80 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2019: #68 among boys in Norway, #3411 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #179 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #59 among boys in Norway, in 2018 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #67 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Edvard appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 80 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 3,521 births with the name.

Edvard across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Edvard's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#179 (1945)	#59 (2018)	#67 (2025)	80 of 81	3,521 (1945–2025)	138 (2013)
England and Wales · Boys	#4678 (2010)	#3079 (2016)	#3411 (2019)	4 of 10	17 (2010–2019)	6 (2016)

Edvard 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 Edvard in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	104	5 of 10	21
1950s	151	10 of 10	15
1960s	91	9 of 10	10
1970s	122	10 of 10	12
1980s	117	10 of 10	12
1990s	510	10 of 10	51
2000s	706	10 of 10	71
2010sbusiest	1,129	10 of 10	113
2020s	591	6 of 10	99

Across Norway · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 113 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2010 and 2011, when recorded births rose by 34, from 83 to 117.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Edvard appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #59 in Norway in 2021.

Edvard'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
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#67	100	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#74	92	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#79	91	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#63	106	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#59	107	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#64	95	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#68	106	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#59	127	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#65	116	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#66	120	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#85	97	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#77	107	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#61	138	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#75	118	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#78	117	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#99	83	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#94	89	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#110	79	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#101	78	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#105	74	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#113	65	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#103	75	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#100	77	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#132	52	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#117	59	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#123	58	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#99	74	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#128	55	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#111	66	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#141	50	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#114	62	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#95	74	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#120	57	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#212	30	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#243	23	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#268	19	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#452	8	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#323	14	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#319	14	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#410	10	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#537	6	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#362	12	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#410	10	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#248	21	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#372	11	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#380	11	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#458	8	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#358	12	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#414	9	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#354	12	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#293	15	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#300	15	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#309	14	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#309	14	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#381	10	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#316	13	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#323	12	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#279	14	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#304	12	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#418	7	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#334	10	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#476	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#318	10	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#277	12	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#322	9	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#269	12	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#251	13	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#190	21	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#241	14	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#219	14	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#219	15	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#204	17	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#225	13	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#265	10	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#180	22	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#202	17	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#176	24	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#171	26	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#223	15	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#179	22	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 80 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #59, first reached in 2018.

It held a top-100 place in 20 years, 17 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 138 births, registered in Norway in 2013.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 65 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

Eduard · #342, 25y
Eduardo · #582, 30y
Edvardas · #616, 10y
Edvin · #45, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, 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.

Sigmund · #60, 81y
Georg · #65, 81y
Aina · #52, 81y
Evy · #69, 80y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Jostein · #59, 81y
Arnfinn · #58, 52y
Helga · #58, 70y
Sigmund · #60, 81y

Edvard was ranked #59 in Norway · Boys in 2018. 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.

Edvard 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 Edvard without appearing here.

Edvard moved ahead of

Egil Compare
In 1989 they stood at #452 and #243 in Norway · Boys; by 1990 that had become #268 and #488.
Arthur Compare
In 1989 they stood at #452 and #369 in Norway · Boys; by 1990 that had become #268 and #449.
Harry Compare
In 1971 they stood at #381 and #359 in Norway · Boys; by 1972 that had become #309 and #473.
Kåre Compare
In 1989 they stood at #452 and #361 in Norway · Boys; by 1990 that had become #268 and #400.

Moved ahead of Edvard

Even Compare
In 1950 they stood at #180 and #202 in Norway · Boys; by 1951 that had become #265 and #163.
Mathias Compare
In 1975 they stood at #293 and #402 in Norway · Boys; by 1976 that had become #354 and #259.
Emil Compare
In 1972 they stood at #309 and #361 in Norway · Boys; by 1973 that had become #309 and #217.
Tobias Compare
In 1982 they stood at #248 and #268 in Norway · Boys; by 1983 that had become #410 and #325.

Moved the opposite way to Edvard

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edvard went from #179 to #67 while Anders went from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edvard went from #179 to #67 while Arild went from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edvard went from #179 to #67 while Arne went from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edvard went from #179 to #67 while Bjørn went from #3 to #56.

Moved the same way as Edvard

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edvard went from #179 to #67 and Aksel from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edvard went from #179 to #67 and Alfred from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edvard went from #179 to #67 and Arthur from #153 to #83.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edvard went from #179 to #67 and Daniel from #280 to #66.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #59 in Norway in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Edvard

Edvard at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Edvard across 2 official records

Edvard by decade in Norway · Boys

Edvard appears in

Popularity data

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Edvard at a glance

Edvard across 2 official records

Edvard by decade in Norway · Boys

Edvard appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

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Edvard moved ahead of

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