Names of Denmark
1,449,891 births across 251 recorded names, 1985 to 2025.
Top of 2025
Common here, rare in America
Names Denmark gives often that the US records barely hold.
| Name | In Denmark | In the US |
|---|---|---|
| Malthe | 11,824 | not recorded |
| Line | 10,830 | not recorded |
| Lærke | 9,607 | not recorded |
| Alberte | 8,841 | not recorded |
| Pernille | 7,611 | not recorded |
| Stine | 5,982 | not recorded |
| Jeppe | 5,668 | not recorded |
| Villads | 5,102 | not recorded |
| Frederikke | 4,368 | not recorded |
| Nohr | 2,905 | not recorded |
| Lauge | 2,722 | not recorded |
| Asger | 2,574 | not recorded |
| Laurits | 2,467 | not recorded |
| Ditte | 2,453 | not recorded |
| Tilde | 1,762 | not recorded |
US figures are Social Security births since 1880; the Denmark figures cover 1985 onwards. The two are not the same measure and the columns are for comparison of scale, not subtraction.
Most given since 1985
Source: Statistics Denmark, Navne til nyfødte. The most popular names given to newborns each year - the top 25 from 1985 to 1992 and the top 50 from 1993 onwards. Names outside that do not appear, so this is a shorter list than most countries here.