Ragnar

maleStatistical record

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

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

Ragnar: Recorded every year since 1945, its highest recorded position is #42, and it stood at #196 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
93times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#42highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Ragnar's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2014–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2014	#3895
2015	#2707
2016	#2027
2017	#2172
2018	#1786
2019	#1253
2020	#1379
2021	#1218
2022	#1534
2023	#1701
2024	#1460

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 every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #149 among boys in Norway, #535 among boys in Scotland, #1460 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #44 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: #42 among boys in Norway, in 1946 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #196 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Ragnar appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 3,817 births with the name.

Ragnar 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.

Ragnar'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	#44 (1945)	#42 (1946)	#196 (2025)	81 of 81	3,817 (1945–2025)	216 (1946)
England and Wales · Boys	#3895 (2014)	#1218 (2021)	#1460 (2024)	11 of 11	153 (2014–2024)	22 (2021)

Ragnar 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 Ragnar in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	896	5 of 10	179
1950s	1,161	10 of 10	116
1960s	665	10 of 10	67
1970s	340	10 of 10	34
1980s	188	10 of 10	19
1990s	119	10 of 10	12
2000s	84	10 of 10	8
2010s	183	10 of 10	18
2020s	181	6 of 10	30

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 179 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1959 and 1960, when recorded births fell by 39, from 101 to 62.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ragnar 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 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #42 in Norway in 1946.

Ragnar'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
2024	England and Wales	male	#1460	18	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1701	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1534	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1218	22	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1379	18	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1253	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1786	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2172	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2027	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#196	23	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#149	36	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#179	29	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#145	38	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#168	29	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#175	26	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#170	32	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#195	28	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#237	21	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#207	26	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#265	19	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#240	21	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#302	15	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#455	7	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#370	10	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#561	4	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#352	12	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#313	14	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#461	7	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#441	7	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#468	6	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#462	6	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#439	7	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#385	8	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#471	6	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#349	11	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#458	7	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#414	8	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#400	9	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#291	15	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#309	14	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#336	12	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#328	13	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#383	10	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#340	13	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#290	18	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#299	16	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#335	14	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#299	16	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#314	16	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#262	21	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#325	15	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#266	20	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#244	23	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#224	23	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#232	24	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#260	19	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#236	23	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#172	39	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#213	27	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#227	23	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#215	28	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#169	43	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#175	41	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#149	50	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#153	47	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#156	44	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#139	52	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#105	72	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#95	81	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#106	69	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#97	79	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#110	65	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#112	58	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#88	83	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#105	62	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#78	101	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#86	88	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#80	98	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#78	100	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#82	92	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#73	111	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#59	140	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#60	132	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#58	148	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#53	151	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#53	154	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#51	161	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#44	181	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#42	216	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#44	184	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #42, first reached in 1946.

It held a top-100 place in 18 years, 15 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 216 births, registered in Norway in 1946.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 79 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.

Raghav · #1108, 27y
Ragna · #146, 80y
Ragne · #326, 37y
Ragnhild · #18, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Edvin · #45, 81y
Thor · #39, 81y
Ola · #48, 81y
Sonja · #35, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Anne-Lise · #42, 50y
Carl · #41, 81y
Charles · #41, 81y
Erling · #43, 81y

Ragnar was ranked #42 in Norway · Boys 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.

Ragnar 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 Ragnar without appearing here.

Ragnar moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1701 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1460 and #5119.
Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2707 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2027 and #4810.
Tor Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3895 and #3362 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #2707 and #4747.
Fredrik Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1701 and #1272 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1460 and #3254.

Moved ahead of Ragnar

Alfred Compare
In 2000 they stood at #349 and #389 in Norway · Boys; by 2001 that had become #471 and #250.
Max Compare
In 1996 they stood at #291 and #305 in Norway · Boys; by 1997 that had become #400 and #189.
Levi Compare
In 2000 they stood at #349 and #363 in Norway · Boys; by 2001 that had become #471 and #344.
Noah Compare
In 1996 they stood at #291 and #332 in Norway · Boys; by 1997 that had become #400 and #274.

Moved the opposite way to Ragnar

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ragnar went from #44 to #196 while Aksel went from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ragnar went from #44 to #196 while Alfred went from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ragnar went from #44 to #196 while Arthur went from #153 to #83.
David Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ragnar went from #44 to #196 while David went from #167 to #88.

Moved the same way as Ragnar

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ragnar went from #44 to #196 and Anders from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ragnar went from #44 to #196 and Arild from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ragnar went from #44 to #196 and Arne from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ragnar went from #44 to #196 and Bjørn from #3 to #56.

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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #42 in Norway in 1946. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ragnar

Ragnar at a glance

What stands out in Ragnar's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ragnar across 2 official records

Ragnar by decade in Norway · Boys

Ragnar appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

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Ragnar at a glance

What stands out in Ragnar's record

Ragnar across 2 official records

Ragnar by decade in Norway · Boys

Ragnar 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 Ragnar

Ragnar and the names beside it

Ragnar moved ahead of

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