Morten
The boy's name Morten has been in the national records since 1914, with 43 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1934. About 1 Mortens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 91.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Morten
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 43
- Estimated living today
- 1
- Median age today
- 91
- Peak year
- 1929
- Best rank
- 2,980th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1914
How old the living Mortens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 43 babies given the name since 1914, about 1 are alive — 2 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1934 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Mortens
- Morten P. Meldal (born 1954)Danish chemist
- Morten Gamst Pedersen (born 1981)Norwegian footballer
- Morten Olsen (born 1949)Danish footballer
- Morten Tyldum (born 1967)Norwegian film director
- Morten Harket (born 1959)Norwegian singer
- Morten Hjulmand (born 1999)Danish association football player
- Morten Thorsby (born 1996)Norwegian footballer
- Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737–1827)Danish zoologist and mineralogist
People named Morten with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1929
The most popular boys’ names the year Morten peaked:
Morten elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway boys | Morten | 23,106 | 3rd |
| Denmark boys | Morten | 10,567 | 4th |
| England and Wales boys | Morten | 46 | 2,390th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Morten by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Morten among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Morten | 19 | 41 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Morten against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.