Rune

maleStatistical record

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

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

Rune: Recorded since 1945, it reached #2 in 1972, and it stood at #498 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
92times a registrar ranked it
80years from first to last
#2highest recorded position
25groupings it qualifies for
7names it appears alongside

What stands out in Rune's record

Held a top-100 place for 49 years running. Names by top-100 run
Shares a published list with another name across 74 years. Longest shared records

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2020–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2020	#5493
2024	#4843

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 74 of the 80 years from 1945 to 2024.

In 2024: #498 among boys in Norway, #1460 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #111 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2024
Highest recorded position: #2 among boys in Norway, in 1972 (recorded 1945–2024).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rune appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 74 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 20,234 births with the name.

Rune across 3 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.

Rune'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	#111 (1945)	#2 (1972)	#498 (2024)	74 of 80	20,234 (1945–2024)	873 (1969)
England and Wales · Boys	#2943 (1999)	#1460 (2024)	#1460 (2024)	16 of 26	108 (1999–2024)	18 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#5493 (2020)	#4843 (2024)	#4843 (2024)	2 of 5	7 (2020–2024)	4 (2024)

Rune 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 Rune in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	480	5 of 10	96
1950s	3,766	10 of 10	377
1960sbusiest	7,088	10 of 10	709
1970s	5,928	10 of 10	593
1980s	2,106	10 of 10	211
1990s	686	10 of 10	69
2000s	138	10 of 10	14
2010s	25	5 of 10	5
2020s	17	4 of 10	4

Across Norway · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade, averaging 709 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1973 and 1974, when recorded births fell by 155, from 752 to 597.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Rune 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 2024. Highest recorded position: #2 in Norway in 1973.

Rune'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	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1460	18	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1799	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1609	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2125	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2228	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2104	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#498	4	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#483	5	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#495	4	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#475	4	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#477	5	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#486	5	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#504	5	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#506	5	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#516	5	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#469	7	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#455	7	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#430	8	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#364	10	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#330	11	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#264	16	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#343	11	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#217	22	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#257	18	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#201	28	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#209	26	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#161	38	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#164	38	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#157	43	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#146	47	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#97	73	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#91	82	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#86	89	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#69	118	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#65	132	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#53	162	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#58	152	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#37	194	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#47	166	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#48	163	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#34	194	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#26	238	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#23	262	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#22	270	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#16	305	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#13	345	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#8	434	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#9	409	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#4	484	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#5	536	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#6	597	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#2	752	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#2	728	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#3	802	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#3	841	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#4	873	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#5	824	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#5	755	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#5	746	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#6	687	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#5	713	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#5	675	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#7	601	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#6	635	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#9	579	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#8	629	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#12	520	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#9	542	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#15	444	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#16	421	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#26	330	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#29	290	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#35	247	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#43	190	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#52	153	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#58	135	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#63	124	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#71	106	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#99	67	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#111	48	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 2024, ranked in 78 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2, first reached in 1972.

It held a top-100 place in 49 years, 49 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 873 births, registered in Norway in 1969.

1 registrar ranked it inside their own top 10.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1999, and 54 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.

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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.

Hilde · #2, 76y
Lars · #2, 81y
Anders · #3, 81y
Morten · #3, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Andrew · #2, 79y
Bente · #2, 62y
Bjørn · #2, 81y
Camilla · #2, 70y

Comparisons involving Rune

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

Rune vs Henry
In 1945 they stood at #111 and #102 in Norway · Boys, 9 places apart; by 2024 they were #498 and #52.
Rune · Henry · 74 shared years, 1945–2024 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2024 Norway ranking
Rune vs Jørgen
In 1945 they stood at #111 and #104 in Norway · Boys, 7 places apart; by 2024 they were #498 and #116.
Rune · Jørgen · 74 shared years, 1945–2024 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2024 Norway ranking
Peter vs Rune
In 1945 they stood at #106 and #111 in Norway · Boys, 5 places apart; by 2024 they were #204 and #498.
Peter · Rune · 74 shared years, 1945–2024 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2024 Norway ranking

Order changes

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

Thomas vs Rune
In 1974, Thomas moved ahead of Rune in Norway · Boys — #4 and #2 the year before became #1 and #6.
Thomas · Rune · 74 shared years, 1945–2024 · One moved ahead of the other
See the 1974 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

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

Rune vs Trond
Rune and Trond changed places 16 times in Norway · Boys between 1945 and 2023, ending at #483 and #446.
Rune · Trond · 70 shared years, 1945–2023 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2023 Norway ranking
Rune vs Tore
Rune and Tore changed places 15 times in Norway · Boys between 1945 and 2024, ending at #498 and #504.
Rune · Tore · 73 shared years, 1945–2024 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2024 Norway ranking
Rune vs Geir
Rune and Geir changed places 14 times in Norway · Boys between 1945 and 2024, ending at #498 and #482.
Rune · Geir · 68 shared years, 1945–2024 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2024 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Rune was ranked #2 in Norway · Boys in 1972. 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.

Rune 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 Rune without appearing here.

Rune moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1799 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1460 and #5119.
Harald Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4747 and #4747 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #2125 and #4789.
Daithi Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4749 and #3011 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2104 and #4702.
Kelly Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4749 and #3011 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2104 and #4702.

Moved ahead of Rune

Kjetil Compare
In 2006 they stood at #364 and #402 in Norway · Boys; by 2007 that had become #430 and #264.
Hugo Compare
In 2007 they stood at #430 and #444 in Norway · Boys; by 2008 that had become #455 and #290.
Liam Compare
In 2002 they stood at #217 and #236 in Norway · Boys; by 2003 that had become #343 and #198.
Joseph Compare
In 2018 they stood at #486 and #516 in Norway · Boys; by 2019 that had become #477 and #335.

Moved the opposite way to Rune

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Boys, Rune went from #111 to #498 while Aksel went from #174 to #20.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Boys, Rune went from #111 to #498 while Alfred went from #127 to #22.
Andreas Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Boys, Rune went from #111 to #498 while Andreas went from #140 to #84.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Boys, Rune went from #111 to #498 while Arthur went from #153 to #81.

Moved the same way as Rune

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Boys, Rune went from #111 to #498 and Anders from #55 to #279.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Boys, Rune went from #111 to #498 and Arne from #6 to #174.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Boys, Rune went from #111 to #498 and Bjørn from #3 to #86.
Brian Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Boys, Rune went from #111 to #498 and Brian from #296 to #441.

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 2 regions, from 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2 in Norway in 1973. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rune

Rune at a glance

What stands out in Rune's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rune across 3 official records

Rune by decade in Norway · Boys

Rune 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 Rune

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Rune

Rune and the names beside it

Rune moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Rune

Moved the opposite way to Rune

Moved the same way as Rune

Rune at a glance

What stands out in Rune's record

Rune across 3 official records

Rune by decade in Norway · Boys

Rune 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 Rune

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Rune

Rune and the names beside it

Rune moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Rune

Moved the opposite way to Rune

Moved the same way as Rune