Så räknar vi

Varje siffra på Namn kommer från en officiell källa. Källfilerna sparas oförändrade, och allt vi visar räknas fram från dem. Den här utgåvan heter 2026-11-13T15-57-35-743Z och byggdes 2026-11-13.

”Färre än N”

Källorna publicerar inte namn som bara ett fåtal barn fått, för att skydda enskilda. Gränsen skiljer sig mellan länder och ibland mellan år. När ett namn saknas ett år skriver vi därför ”färre än N”, aldrig noll. I diagrammen bryts linjen de åren.

Rader som källan slår ihop till ”övriga” räknas aldrig som ett namn.

Källor, år och gränser

Länderna räknar året på olika sätt: födelseåret, året då namnet gavs eller året då födseln registrerades. Det gör att ett barn född i december kan hamna på olika år i olika länder.

Stavningar

Statistiken hör till den exakta stavningen. Chloé och Chloe har var sin siffra, och Åsa och Asa är olika namn. En sida samlar stavningar som bara skiljer sig i accenter eller versaler, men visar varje stavning för sig.

Några källor, som de i Storbritannien och USA, tar bort accenter. Där kan ”Chloe” även innehålla barn som heter Chloé.

Per 1 000 födda

För att länder med olika många födslar ska gå att jämföra visar vi hur många per 1 000 födda flickor eller pojkar som fick namnet. Det räknas bara där utgåvan har källans födelsetal för samma land, år och kön. Annars visar vi bara antalet.

Placering

Placeringen är stavningens plats bland alla publicerade namn för samma kön i landet det senaste året. Nummer 1 är det vanligaste.

Andel flickor

Andelen flickor räknas på publicerade antal de senaste tio åren. Om bara det ena könet finns med kan det andra ändå förekomma under källans gräns.

Att tänka på i den här utgåvan

• Counts are newborns in Sweden by the year they were named (namngivningsår) and sex, 1998–2022, from SCB table TAB5665. The name is the tilltalsnamn, the first name the child is called by.
• A name is published for a year and sex only with at least 2 newborns from 2004, and at least 10 for 1998–2003. A missing year means fewer than that, not zero.
• SCB keeps every spelling as its own name; nothing is merged. Names are shown exactly as SCB spells them, including spaces, hyphens and accents.
• Shares use live births in the calendar year (SCB table TAB4376) as the denominator, while names count by naming year, so a share can be slightly off around year boundaries.
• SCB stopped publishing this table after 2022.
• Births in France 1900–2025 by first given name, sex and year of birth. France includes the overseas departments; Mayotte is included from 2012 only.
• Counts are rounded by INSEE to the nearest multiple of 5, so a published 5 means 3 to 7 births.
• A name given fewer than 3 times in a year is not published: a missing year means under 3, not zero.
• Accented and unaccented spellings are separate rows in the source and stay separate forms.
• INSEE publishes names in upper case with accents. Case is restored here: a capital at the start and after a hyphen, space or apostrophe, lower case elsewhere (JEAN-PIERRE becomes Jean-Pierre).
• Places are coded by today's departments, also for earlier years (edition 2026).
• Births per year are live births by sex from INSEE table T35 (France hors Mayotte jusqu'en 2013 et inclus Mayotte à partir de 2014), 1994–2025. Earlier years have no split by sex there. 2012 and 2013 are left out because T35 adds Mayotte only from 2014.
• First names of babies born in England and Wales 2019–2025, by sex and year of birth (ONS counts live births that occurred in the calendar year, from birth registrations).
• Different spellings are counted separately. ONS publishes names without accents.
• Births to mothers usually resident outside England and Wales are not in the name counts.
• ONS published 2019–2020 in upper case. Case is restored here from the spelling ONS used for the same name in its title-case years; names not found there (2574 rows) get a capital at the start and after a hyphen or space.
• Some year files store the name True as the spreadsheet value TRUE; it is read as the name True.
• The years 1996–2018 are published only as .xls files, which this pipeline cannot read yet, so they are not included.
• Births per year are live births by sex for England and Wales (mothers resident there) from the ONS birth registrations tables, 2023–2025 only.
• First names of babies whose births were registered in Scotland 1974–2025, by sex and year of registration.
• Different spellings are counted separately. NRS removes accents, so Chloé is counted as Chloe.
• Births in Scotland to mothers living elsewhere are included; births to Scottish residents abroad are not.
• Births per year are live births registered in Scotland by sex (NRS vital events tables), 1974–2025.
• First names of babies whose births were registered in Northern Ireland 1997–2025, by sex and year of registration. Births to mothers living outside Northern Ireland are included.
• A name given fewer than 3 times in a year is not published: a missing year means under 3, not zero. NISRA lists those names with ".." for the count; they are left out here.
• Different spellings are counted separately. NISRA removes accents, so Séan is recorded as Sean.
• Births per year are live births registered in Northern Ireland by sex (Registrar General annual report, table 3.1), 1997–2024; none yet for 2025.
• Counts are people born in the United States in each year, 1880–2025, who have a Social Security number, by sex, from the Social Security Administration's national files.
• A name is published for a year and sex only with at least 5 occurrences. A missing year means fewer than 5, not zero.
• SSA publishes names without accents, spaces or hyphens, with only the first letter capitalised (for example "Mckenzie"). Names are shown as published; case and accents are not restored, so one US spelling can stand for several written forms.
• There are no US birth totals in this release, so US counts are not shown as shares of births.