Jorunn

femaleStatistical record

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

No researched meaning or origin yet — what that means.

Pronunciation

Community-contributed pronunciation recording

A Swedish pronunciation, as its file is labelled. Licence: CC0. Source

VerifiedSource: Wikidata.Confidence: medium.

Jorunn: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #18, and it stood at #449 in 2020.

1registrar recorded it
72times a registrar ranked it
76years from first to last
#18highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for
12names it appears alongside

What stands out in Jorunn's record

Held a top-100 place for 32 years running. Names by top-100 run
Shares a published list with another name across 72 years. Longest shared records

Norway · Girls

Falling

among girls in Norway · 1945–2020

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 · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1945	#23
1946	#18
1947	#24
1948	#28
1949	#20
1950	#22
1951	#25
1952	#23
1953	#26
1954	#27
1955	#35
1956	#31
1957	#36
1958	#49
1959	#37
1960	#30
1961	#28
1962	#37
1963	#36
1964	#44
1965	#52
1966	#54
1967	#56
1968	#52
1969	#67
1970	#68
1971	#65
1972	#75
1973	#87
1974	#86
1975	#88
1976	#97
1977	#111
1978	#114
1979	#114
1980	#150
1981	#151
1982	#175
1983	#197
1984	#173
1985	#212
1986	#158
1987	#204
1988	#371
1989	#351
1990	#448
1991	#467
1992	#329
1993	#268
1994	#257
1995	#317
1996	#332
1997	#378
1998	#557
1999	#401
2000	#268
2001	#498
2002	#459
2004	#530
2005	#432
2006	#489
2007	#478
2008	#599
2009	#561
2010	#489
2013	#577
2014	#523
2015	#461
2016	#521
2017	#536
2019	#448
2020	#449

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 72 of the 76 years from 1945 to 2020.

Official data for Norway, 1945–2020 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

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

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #23 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2020
Highest recorded position: #18 among girls in Norway, in 1946 (recorded 1945–2020).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2020
Most recently recorded at #449 among girls in Norway, in 2020.
Norway · Girls

Jorunn 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 Jorunn in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	1,712	5 of 10	342
1950s	2,680	10 of 10	268
1960s	2,005	10 of 10	201
1970s	834	10 of 10	83
1980s	295	10 of 10	30
1990s	116	10 of 10	12
2000s	66	9 of 10	7
2010s	38	7 of 10	5
2020s	5	1 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 342 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1957 and 1958, when recorded births fell by 60, from 258 to 198.

See the names Norway has recorded the most births with →

Jorunn 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 2020. Highest recorded position: #18 in Norway in 1946.

Jorunn'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
2020	Norway	female	#449	5	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#448	6	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#536	4	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#521	5	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#461	7	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#523	5	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#577	4	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#489	7	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#561	5	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#599	4	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#478	7	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#489	7	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#432	8	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#530	5	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#459	7	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#498	6	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#268	17	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#401	9	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#557	5	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#378	10	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#332	12	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#317	13	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#257	19	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#268	18	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#329	13	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#467	8	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#448	9	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#351	13	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#371	12	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#204	29	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#158	42	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#212	23	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#173	33	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#197	27	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#175	33	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#151	42	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#150	41	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#114	59	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#114	56	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#111	57	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#97	68	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#88	83	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#86	80	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#87	87	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#75	105	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#65	125	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#68	114	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#67	138	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#52	167	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#56	156	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#54	174	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#52	175	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#44	204	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#36	233	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#37	222	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#28	278	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#30	258	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#37	245	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#49	198	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#36	258	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#31	277	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#35	253	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#27	269	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#26	282	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#23	298	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#25	287	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#22	313	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#20	354	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#28	303	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#24	345	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#18	381	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#23	329	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 2020, ranked in 72 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #18, first reached in 1946.

It held a top-100 place in 32 years, 32 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 381 births, registered in Norway in 1946.

Its record falls into 4 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.

Jorun · #49, 46y
Jørund · #256, 57y
Jory · #2020, 14y
Jos · #1004, 28y

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.

Marthe · #18, 71y
Dag · #19, 75y
Hedvig · #19, 76y
Steinar · #17, 77y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Alfred · #18, 78y
Grete · #18, 64y
Hugo · #18, 81y
Marthe · #18, 71y

Comparisons involving Jorunn

Existing comparison pages where Jorunn and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Jorunn in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Ingrid vs Jorunn
In 1945 they stood at #27 and #23 in Norway · Girls, 4 places apart; by 2020 they were #8 and #449.
Ingrid · Jorunn · 72 shared years, 1945–2020 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2020 Norway ranking
Solveig vs Jorunn
In 1945 they stood at #14 and #23 in Norway · Girls, 9 places apart; by 2020 they were #44 and #449.
Solveig · Jorunn · 72 shared years, 1945–2020 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2020 Norway ranking
Jorunn vs Grete
Jorunn and Grete changed places 26 times in Norway · Girls between 1945 and 2020, ending at #449 and #486.
Jorunn · Grete · 62 shared years, 1945–2020 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2020 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

Pairs involving Jorunn measured in Norway's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Jorunn at its highest position.

Jorunn vs Åse
Jorunn and Åse changed places 25 times in Norway · Girls between 1945 and 2020, ending at #449 and #107.
Jorunn · Åse · 72 shared years, 1945–2020 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2020 Norway ranking
Grethe vs Jorunn
Grethe and Jorunn changed places 19 times in Norway · Girls between 1945 and 2004, ending at #573 and #530.
Grethe · Jorunn · 58 shared years, 1945–2004 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2004 Norway ranking
Karin vs Jorunn
Karin and Jorunn changed places 14 times in Norway · Girls between 1945 and 2019, ending at #412 and #448.
Karin · Jorunn · 71 shared years, 1945–2019 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2019 Norway ranking

Norway overview →

Jorunn was ranked #18 in Norway · Girls in 1946. 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.

Jorunn 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 Jorunn without appearing here.

Jorunn moved ahead of

Wenche
In 1995 they stood at #317 and #310 in Norway · Girls; by 1996 that had become #332 and #612.
Gerd
In 1991 they stood at #467 and #402 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #329 and #593.
Kirsten
In 1998 they stood at #557 and #405 in Norway · Girls; by 1999 that had become #401 and #567.
Reidun
In 1998 they stood at #557 and #412 in Norway · Girls; by 1999 that had become #401 and #528.

Moved ahead of Jorunn

Evelyn
In 2012 they stood at #489 and #520 in Norway · Girls; by 2013 that had become #577 and #224.
Aria
In 2012 they stood at #478 and #584 in Norway · Girls; by 2013 that had become #577 and #257.
Josephine
In 2012 they stood at #489 and #490 in Norway · Girls; by 2013 that had become #577 and #291.
Zoe
In 2012 they stood at #489 and #541 in Norway · Girls; by 2013 that had become #577 and #328.

Moved the opposite way to Jorunn

Ada
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Jorunn went from #23 to #449 while Ada went from #229 to #10.
Alma
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Jorunn went from #23 to #449 while Alma went from #293 to #15.
Anna
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Jorunn went from #23 to #449 while Anna went from #38 to #14.
Elise
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Jorunn went from #23 to #449 while Elise went from #223 to #51.

Moved the same way as Jorunn

Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Jorunn went from #23 to #449 and Anne from #1 to #127.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Jorunn went from #23 to #449 and Åse from #25 to #107.
Astrid
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Jorunn went from #23 to #449 and Astrid from #12 to #27.
Christine
Between 1945 and 2020 in Norway · Girls, Jorunn went from #23 to #449 and Christine from #253 to #479.

What is known about Jorunn

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 1 official registrar, 1945–2020.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Reported; A recorded pronunciation is available.

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 2020. Highest recorded position: #18 in Norway in 1946. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Jorunn

Pronunciation

Jorunn at a glance

What stands out in Jorunn's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jorunn by decade in Norway · Girls

Jorunn appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Jorunn

Longest shared records

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Jorunn

Jorunn and the names beside it

Jorunn moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Jorunn

Moved the opposite way to Jorunn

Moved the same way as Jorunn

What is known about Jorunn

Jorunn at a glance

What stands out in Jorunn's record

Jorunn by decade in Norway · Girls

Jorunn appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Jorunn

Longest shared records

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Jorunn

Jorunn and the names beside it

Jorunn moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Jorunn

Moved the opposite way to Jorunn

Moved the same way as Jorunn