Names recorded across generations
Names ranked inside the top 200 at both ends of a record spanning at least 45 years, in the same published list.
A long record alone is not this: a name at #40 in 1950 and #4,000 today has been recorded for seventy years and has not stayed in use at the same level. This asks for real standing at both ends, so the two figures are decades apart and comparable.
60 names, selected from the 2,573 names in the catalogue with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon). Based on official statistics from national registrars. Data sources · Methodology
- Aksel
Ranked #174 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #25 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Alfred
Ranked #127 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #26 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Andreas
Ranked #140 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #96 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Anne
Ranked #1 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #159 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Åse
Ranked #25 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #93 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Astrid
Ranked #12 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #9 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Bjørn
Ranked #3 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #56 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Einar
Ranked #23 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #57 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Eirik
Ranked #136 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #122 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Elisabeth
Ranked #50 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #171 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Ella
Ranked #137 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #4 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Ellinor
Ranked #102 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #7 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Else
Ranked #15 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #191 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Erik
Ranked #27 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #64 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Eva
Ranked #8 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #22 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Evelyn
Ranked #121 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #153 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Even
Ranked #180 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #42 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Finn
Ranked #31 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #153 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Fredrik
Ranked #137 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #82 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Gustav
Ranked #154 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #19 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Håkon
Ranked #49 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #37 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Hanna
Ranked #164 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #53 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Hans
Ranked #11 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #97 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Harald
Ranked #8 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #109 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Helene
Ranked #110 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #101 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Henrik
Ranked #141 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #16 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Hugo
Ranked #186 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #101 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Ingrid
Ranked #27 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #15 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Jakob
Ranked #150 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #9 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Jan
Ranked #2 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #149 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Jenny
Ranked #190 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #29 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Johannes
Ranked #75 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #8 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Jon
Ranked #34 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #124 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Jørgen
Ranked #104 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #114 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Knut
Ranked #7 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #145 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Kristian
Ranked #79 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #102 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Lars
Ranked #24 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #90 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Liv
Ranked #3 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #73 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Magnus
Ranked #125 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #17 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Mari
Ranked #157 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #94 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Marie
Ranked #73 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #45 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Martin
Ranked #83 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #69 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Nils
Ranked #26 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #61 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Nina
Ranked #132 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #195 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Olav
Ranked #18 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #10 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Ole
Ranked #16 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #52 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Per
Ranked #1 among boys in Norway in 1945 and still #142 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Solveig
Ranked #14 among girls in Norway in 1945 and still #28 in 2025, 80 years later.
- Alexander
Ranked #80 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 and still #22 in 2025, 73 years later.
- Arthur
Ranked #67 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 and still #19 in 2025, 73 years later.
- Daniel
Ranked #83 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 and still #64 in 2025, 73 years later.
- Edward
Ranked #48 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 and still #75 in 2025, 73 years later.
- Elizabeth
Ranked #10 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 and still #83 in 2025, 73 years later.
- George
Ranked #46 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 and still #24 in 2025, 73 years later.
- James
Ranked #21 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 and still #15 in 2025, 73 years later.
- Joseph
Ranked #62 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 and still #33 in 2025, 73 years later.
- Michael
Ranked #6 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 and still #62 in 2025, 73 years later.
- Patrick
Ranked #59 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 and still #83 in 2025, 73 years later.
- Thomas
Ranked #44 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 and still #13 in 2025, 73 years later.
- William
Ranked #12 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 and still #11 in 2025, 73 years later.