Comments on: Norway’s Most Popular Baby Girl Names Right Now

By: Aly

Aly — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:06:02 +0000

My 1st born son is named Benjamin, I call him Bjorn. (I actually wanted his middle name to be Bear, but his father came back with a hard NO). So middle name is Lius. Bjorn wants a baby sister to be named Astrid. I like it. It was going to be Janezskah, Janie for short. We’ll see. I’m of Scandinavian decent and am Norse Pagan. Bjorn’s biological father is Puerto Rican. His step-Dad is Irish and Norse Pagan. I’ve found having the same faith in a family unit is much more important than trying to survive as muli-faith one.

By: Nathan Skal

Nathan Skal — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:00:32 +0000

I see that Frida is relatively new and Freya is not included. Is Freya a traditional name still circulating?

By: John Potier

John Potier — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:47:42 +0000

The choice of name for our first daughter was Sonja. My wife’s name was Solveig, carrying through a tradition of using names with same initial letter. My wife’s mother’s name was Synnøve.

By: Elsa Freya Kline

Elsa Freya Kline — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 04:56:10 +0000

I’m curious which version is more common in Norway, Elsa or Ilsa? I’m of Norwegian ancestry but born in the US in the 1960’s and was given Elsa, but I’ve encountered more Norwegian women with Ilsa.

By: Rachel Vanderthorne

Rachel Vanderthorne — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 21:15:18 +0000

I recently signed up and am looking forward to a trip to Norway and the North Europe countries. My heritage is traced here and would like to go where the weather matches my cold, stormy side-ways rain Oregon Coast. My home State and favorite place to be. With 54 degree F average and mild summer temperatures, less insects and larger mammals is my ideal. You can usually hear a bear or elk but the wolves are quiet even running in gravel. They do not want to be seen and are rarely spotted. Lately, there has been a lot of cougar/puma sightings as too many building projects have forced the native animals out of their protective woods and into the neighborhoods of invading intruders that hope that it really does not rain this much all the time…heh, heh, heh…You can tell the transplants, dead give-away is tinted windows which with our long dark falls and winters, turn into a ‘mirror-box’ when an inside light comes on or a phone rings, uh, oh…you see windows half down with wet tourists fumbling with slow drivers and normally friendly Oregonian Natives drivers. I usually pull over and let the ‘hurry-worts’ travel in the ‘car clumps’ and ‘lemming lines’. As a professional defensive driver trainer, stunt driver and school bus driver, there are simple measures to stay out of trouble, all of which I incorporate in my travels. Looking forward to the journey, and love the information I receive weekly, cheers, rv