Ludvig

maleStatistical record

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

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

Ludvig: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #13, reached in 2025.

1registrar recorded it
60times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#13highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for
15names it appears alongside

What stands out in Ludvig's record

Shares a published list with another name across 60 years. Longest shared records

Norway · Boys

Rising

among boys in Norway · 1945–2025

View as table

Norway · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1945	#287
1948	#334
1949	#264
1950	#312
1951	#297
1952	#367
1953	#391
1954	#360
1957	#404
1958	#430
1960	#455
1961	#441
1962	#457
1963	#487
1964	#458
1965	#528
1966	#503
1975	#572
1982	#588
1983	#504
1985	#628
1987	#472
1988	#517
1989	#464
1990	#465
1991	#325
1992	#408
1993	#277
1994	#261
1995	#248
1996	#182
1997	#256
1998	#180
1999	#169
2000	#161
2001	#155
2002	#154
2003	#146
2004	#149
2005	#134
2006	#109
2007	#99
2008	#114
2009	#111
2010	#88
2011	#61
2012	#73
2013	#64
2014	#60
2015	#47
2016	#46
2017	#47
2018	#44
2019	#50
2020	#46
2021	#28
2022	#17
2023	#23
2024	#15
2025	#13

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

RisingNorway · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 60 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

Official data for Norway, 1945–2025 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #287 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: #13 among boys in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #13 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Ludvig 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 Ludvig in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	24	3 of 10	8
1950s	40	7 of 10	6
1960s	35	7 of 10	5
1970s	5	1 of 10	5
1980s	39	6 of 10	7
1990s	207	10 of 10	21
2000s	568	10 of 10	57
2010s	1,424	10 of 10	142
2020sbusiest	1,263	6 of 10	211

Across Norway · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 211 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 57, from 129 to 186.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ludvig 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 2025. Highest recorded position: #13 in Norway in 2025.

Ludvig'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
2025	Norway	male	#13	262	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#15	250	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#23	212	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#17	224	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#28	186	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#46	129	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#50	138	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#44	166	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#47	157	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#46	169	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#47	154	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#60	142	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#64	132	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#73	122	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#61	142	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#88	102	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#111	76	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#114	75	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#99	80	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#109	72	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#134	52	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#149	45	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#146	44	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#154	39	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#155	42	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#161	43	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#169	37	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#180	31	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#256	19	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#182	33	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#248	19	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#261	19	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#277	18	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#408	9	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#325	14	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#465	8	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#464	8	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#517	7	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#472	8	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#628	4	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#504	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#588	5	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#572	5	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#503	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#528	4	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#458	6	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#487	5	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#457	5	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#441	5	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#455	5	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#430	5	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#404	5	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#360	6	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#391	4	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#367	5	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#297	8	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#312	7	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#264	10	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#334	6	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#287	8	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 2025, ranked in 60 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #13, first reached in 2025.

It held a top-100 place in 17 years, 16 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 262 births, registered in Norway in 2025.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 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.

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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.

Grethe · #13, 60y
Unni · #13, 64y
Ulrik · #14, 56y
Gunn · #15, 60y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Grethe · #13, 60y
Jenny · #13, 81y
Leon · #13, 74y
Unni · #13, 64y

Comparisons involving Ludvig

Existing comparison pages where Ludvig 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 Ludvig in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Ludvig vs Einar
Over 60 shared years in Norway · Boys, Ludvig rose about as far as Einar fell — from #287 and #23 in 1945 to #13 and #57 in 2025.
Ludvig · Einar · 60 shared years, 1945–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Morten vs Ludvig
Over 60 shared years in Norway · Boys, Ludvig rose about as far as Morten fell — from #107 and #287 in 1945 to #214 and #13 in 2025.
Morten · Ludvig · 60 shared years, 1945–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Ludvig vs Nils
Over 60 shared years in Norway · Boys, Ludvig rose about as far as Nils fell — from #287 and #26 in 1945 to #13 and #61 in 2025.
Ludvig · Nils · 60 shared years, 1945–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Order changes

Pairs where Ludvig and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Daniel vs Ludvig
In Norway · Boys, Ludvig moved into the top 50 at #28 in 2021 as Daniel fell out of it to #53, having been #41 the year before.
Daniel · Ludvig · 60 shared years, 1945–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2021 Norway ranking
Ludvig vs Erik
In Norway · Boys, Ludvig moved into the top 50 at #28 in 2021 as Erik fell out of it to #51, having been #42 the year before.
Ludvig · Erik · 60 shared years, 1945–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2021 Norway ranking
Jacob vs Ludvig
In Norway · Boys, Ludvig moved into the top 50 at #28 in 2021 as Jacob fell out of it to #60, having been #44 the year before.
Jacob · Ludvig · 59 shared years, 1945–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2021 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

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

Peter vs Ludvig
Over 60 shared years in Norway · Boys, Ludvig rose about as far as Peter fell — from #106 and #287 in 1945 to #174 and #13 in 2025.
Peter · Ludvig · 60 shared years, 1945–2025 · Mirrored each other
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Tommy vs Ludvig
Over 59 shared years in Norway · Boys, Ludvig rose about as far as Tommy fell — from #268 and #287 in 1945 to #503 and #15 in 2024.
Tommy · Ludvig · 59 shared years, 1945–2024 · Mirrored each other
See the 2024 Norway ranking
Richard vs Ludvig
Over 58 shared years in Norway · Boys, Ludvig rose about as far as Richard fell — from #219 and #287 in 1945 to #481 and #23 in 2023.
Richard · Ludvig · 58 shared years, 1945–2023 · Mirrored each other
See the 2023 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Ludvig was ranked #13 in Norway · Boys in 2025. 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.

Ludvig 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 Ludvig without appearing here.

Ludvig moved ahead of

Hugo Compare
In 1990 they stood at #465 and #397 in Norway · Boys; by 1991 that had become #325 and #616.
Francis Compare
In 1990 they stood at #472 and #359 in Norway · Boys; by 1991 that had become #325 and #612.
Roman Compare
In 1992 they stood at #408 and #384 in Norway · Boys; by 1993 that had become #277 and #563.
Harry Compare
In 1990 they stood at #465 and #396 in Norway · Boys; by 1991 that had become #325 and #575.

Moved ahead of Ludvig

Oliver Compare
In 1974 they stood at #503 and #543 in Norway · Boys; by 1975 that had become #572 and #328.
Elias Compare
In 1987 they stood at #472 and #487 in Norway · Boys; by 1988 that had become #517 and #308.
Noah Compare
In 2000 they stood at #161 and #177 in Norway · Boys; by 2001 that had become #155 and #77.

Moved the opposite way to Ludvig

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ludvig went from #287 to #13 while Anders went from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ludvig went from #287 to #13 while Arild went from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ludvig went from #287 to #13 while Arne went from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ludvig went from #287 to #13 while Bjørn went from #3 to #56.

Moved the same way as Ludvig

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ludvig went from #287 to #13 and Aksel from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ludvig went from #287 to #13 and Alfred from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ludvig went from #287 to #13 and Arthur from #153 to #83.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ludvig went from #287 to #13 and Daniel from #280 to #66.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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.

Recorded in official data for Norway from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #13 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Ludvig

Ludvig at a glance

What stands out in Ludvig's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ludvig by decade in Norway · Boys

Ludvig 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 Ludvig

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Ludvig

Ludvig and the names beside it

Ludvig moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Ludvig

Moved the opposite way to Ludvig

Moved the same way as Ludvig

Ludvig at a glance

What stands out in Ludvig's record

Ludvig by decade in Norway · Boys

Ludvig 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 Ludvig

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Ludvig

Ludvig and the names beside it

Ludvig moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Ludvig

Moved the opposite way to Ludvig

Moved the same way as Ludvig