Sture

maleStatistical record

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

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

Sture: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 16 years, its highest recorded position is #205, and it was last ranked in 1999.

1registrar recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
55years from first to last
#205highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Sture's record

Absent from every published list for 16 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Norway · Boys

Falling

among boys in Norway · 1945–1999

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Norway · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1945	#276
1946	#240
1947	#205
1948	#236
1949	#282
1950	#268
1951	#274
1952	#234
1953	#269
1954	#308
1955	#347
1956	#218
1957	#262
1958	#244
1959	#306
1960	#313
1961	#247
1962	#261
1963	#310
1964	#437
1965	#326
1966	#343
1967	#296
1968	#276
1969	#543
1970	#365
1971	#371
1972	#566
1973	#526
1974	#440
1975	#447
1976	#522
1977	#629
1981	#612
1998	#530
1999	#572

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 36 of the 55 years from 1945 to 1999.

Official data for Norway, 1945–1999 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #276 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–1999
Highest recorded position: #205 among boys in Norway, in 1947 (recorded 1945–1999).
Norway · Boys
Most recent1999
Most recently recorded at #572 among boys in Norway, in 1999.
Norway · Boys

Sture 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 Sture in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	62	5 of 10	12
1950s	111	10 of 10	11
1960s	112	10 of 10	11
1970s	61	8 of 10	8
1980s	5	1 of 10	5
1990s	9	2 of 10	5

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Sture 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 1999. Highest recorded position: #205 in Norway in 1947.

Sture'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
1999	Norway	male	#572	4	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#530	5	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#612	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#629	4	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#522	6	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#447	9	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#440	9	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#526	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#566	5	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#371	11	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#365	11	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#543	5	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#276	15	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#296	13	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#343	11	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#326	11	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#437	7	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#310	11	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#261	14	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#247	15	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#313	10	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#306	10	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#244	14	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#262	12	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#218	17	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#347	7	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#308	8	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#269	10	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#234	13	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#274	10	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#268	10	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#282	9	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#236	13	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#205	18	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#240	13	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#276	9	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 1999, ranked in 36 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #205, first reached in 1947.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 18 births, registered in Norway in 1947.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 16 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.

Struan · #144, 21y
Stuart · #31, 73y
Sturla · #211, 66y
Suad · #1660, 23y

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.

Baard · #204, 34y
Gerhard · #204, 34y
Macdara · #204, 32y
Torger · #206, 41y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Magny · #205, 22y
Baard · #204, 34y
Gerhard · #204, 34y
Torger · #206, 41y

Sture was ranked #205 in Norway · Boys in 1947. 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.

Sture 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 Sture without appearing here.

Sture moved ahead of

Jason Compare
In 1997 they stood at #612 and #468 in Norway · Boys; by 1998 that had become #530 and #564.

Moved ahead of Sture

Sander Compare
In 1997 they stood at #612 and #658 in Norway · Boys; by 1998 that had become #530 and #3.
Ulrik Compare
In 1997 they stood at #612 and #617 in Norway · Boys; by 1998 that had become #530 and #121.
Ludvig Compare
In 1997 they stood at #447 and #572 in Norway · Boys; by 1998 that had become #530 and #180.
Christopher Compare
In 1968 they stood at #276 and #314 in Norway · Boys; by 1969 that had become #543 and #210.

Moved the opposite way to Sture

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Boys, Sture went from #276 to #572 while Anders went from #55 to #23.
Andreas Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Boys, Sture went from #276 to #572 while Andreas went from #140 to #2.
Christian Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Boys, Sture went from #276 to #572 while Christian went from #161 to #36.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Boys, Sture went from #276 to #572 while Daniel went from #280 to #4.

Moved the same way as Sture

Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Boys, Sture went from #276 to #572 and Alfred from #127 to #263.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Boys, Sture went from #276 to #572 and Arild from #32 to #211.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Boys, Sture went from #276 to #572 and Arne from #6 to #129.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 1999 in Norway · Boys, Sture went from #276 to #572 and Arthur from #153 to #328.

What's not yet available

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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 1999. Highest recorded position: #205 in Norway in 1947. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Sture

Sture at a glance

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Popularity journey

Sture by decade in Norway · Boys

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Sture at a glance

What stands out in Sture's record

Sture by decade in Norway · Boys

Sture appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Sture

Sture and the names beside it

Sture moved ahead of

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