Ulf

maleStatistical record

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

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

Ulf: Recorded since 1945, it reached #79 in 1958, and it was last ranked in 2000.

1registrar recorded it
53times a registrar ranked it
56years from first to last
#79highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Norway · Boys

Falling

among boys in Norway · 1945–2000

View as table

Norway · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1945	#94
1946	#83
1947	#84
1948	#92
1949	#104
1950	#90
1951	#100
1952	#101
1953	#91
1954	#96
1955	#92
1956	#92
1957	#109
1958	#79
1959	#97
1960	#88
1961	#110
1962	#102
1963	#102
1964	#112
1965	#113
1966	#102
1967	#139
1968	#124
1969	#132
1970	#121
1971	#162
1972	#205
1973	#191
1974	#197
1975	#210
1976	#214
1977	#289
1978	#326
1979	#226
1980	#283
1981	#265
1982	#307
1983	#455
1984	#356
1985	#429
1986	#513
1987	#514
1988	#567
1989	#417
1990	#476
1991	#642
1992	#441
1993	#634
1994	#615
1995	#614
1997	#602
2000	#577

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 53 of the 56 years from 1945 to 2000.

Official data for Norway, 1945–2000 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #94 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2000
Highest recorded position: #79 among boys in Norway, in 1958 (recorded 1945–2000).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2000
Most recently recorded at #577 among boys in Norway, in 2000.
Norway · Boys

Ulf 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 Ulf in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	368	5 of 10	74
1950s	737	10 of 10	74
1960s	658	10 of 10	66
1970s	315	10 of 10	32
1980s	115	10 of 10	12
1990s	36	7 of 10	5
2000s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 74 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1957 and 1958, when recorded births rose by 36, from 61 to 97.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ulf 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 2000. Highest recorded position: #79 in Norway in 1958.

Ulf'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
2000	Norway	male	#577	4	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#602	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#614	4	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#615	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#634	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#441	8	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#642	4	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#476	8	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#417	10	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#567	6	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#514	7	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#513	7	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#429	10	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#356	13	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#455	9	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#307	16	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#265	19	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#283	18	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#226	25	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#326	14	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#289	16	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#214	27	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#210	27	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#197	32	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#191	33	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#205	31	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#162	43	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#121	67	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#132	57	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#124	62	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#139	49	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#102	75	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#113	62	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#112	67	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#102	73	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#102	70	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#110	61	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#88	82	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#97	69	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#79	97	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#109	61	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#92	77	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#92	76	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#96	67	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#91	76	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#101	67	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#100	68	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#90	79	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#104	57	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#92	72	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#84	86	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#83	90	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#94	63	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 2000, ranked in 53 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #79, first reached in 1958.

It held a top-100 place in 13 years, 4 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 97 births, registered in Norway in 1958.

Its record falls into 3 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.

Ugonna · #2325, 14y
Ula · #747, 23y
Ulla · #166, 61y
Ulrik · #14, 56y

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.

Ketil · #78, 51y
Svanhild · #77, 58y
Thale · #77, 56y
Bent · #83, 56y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Anny · #79, 56y
Esther · #79, 81y
Ludvik · #79, 39y
Natalia · #79, 78y

Ulf was ranked #79 in Norway · Boys in 1958. 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.

Ulf 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 Ulf without appearing here.

Moved ahead of Ulf

Ben Compare
In 1992 they stood at #441 and #583 in Norway · Boys; by 1993 that had become #634 and #375.
Phillip Compare
In 1992 they stood at #441 and #474 in Norway · Boys; by 1993 that had become #634 and #385.
Oliver Compare
In 1989 they stood at #417 and #434 in Norway · Boys; by 1990 that had become #476 and #231.
Steven Compare
In 1982 they stood at #307 and #404 in Norway · Boys; by 1983 that had become #455 and #224.

Moved the opposite way to Ulf

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Ulf went from #94 to #577 while Aksel went from #174 to #104.
Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Ulf went from #94 to #577 while Anders went from #55 to #33.
Andreas Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Ulf went from #94 to #577 while Andreas went from #140 to #3.
Christian Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Ulf went from #94 to #577 while Christian went from #161 to #29.

Moved the same way as Ulf

Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Ulf went from #94 to #577 and Alfred from #127 to #389.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Ulf went from #94 to #577 and Arild from #32 to #266.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Ulf went from #94 to #577 and Arne from #6 to #166.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Boys, Ulf went from #94 to #577 and Arthur from #153 to #228.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2000. Highest recorded position: #79 in Norway in 1958. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Ulf

Ulf at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ulf by decade in Norway · Boys

Ulf 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

Names published alongside Ulf

Ulf and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Ulf

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Moved the same way as Ulf

Ulf at a glance

Ulf by decade in Norway · Boys

Ulf 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 Ulf

Ulf and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Ulf

Moved the opposite way to Ulf

Moved the same way as Ulf