Vegard
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vegard is a given name, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse, feminine equivalent Vegjerd.
- NONorway1 in 656◐
- SESweden1 in 155K
- GHGhana1 in 169K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.4K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 94 ●
- 1 in 656 ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
5.5K records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a male given name from Old Norse, feminine equivalent Vegjerd
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #108 | 8,331 | 4.8K rec. | 1 in 656 | 32K | Vegard | 94 |
| US United States | — | 228 | 233 rec. | — | — | Vegard | 43 |
| GH Ghana | #875 | 101 | 103 rec. | — | — | Vegard | 6 |
| DE Germany | — | 94 | 88 rec. | — | — | Vegard | 29 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 84 | 48 rec. | — | — | Vegard | 18 |
| SE Sweden | — | 66 | 58 rec. | 1 in 155K | 66 | Vegard | 10 |
| AU Australia | — | 48 | 44 rec. | — | — | Vegard | 14 |
| DK Denmark | — | 19 | 12 rec. | 1 in 309K | 19 | Vegard | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 16 | 14 rec. | — | listed | Vegard | 9 |
| BR Brazil | — | 11 | 1 rec. | — | — | Vegard | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 10 | 5 rec. | — | — | Vegard | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | 9 | 2 rec. | — | 5 | Vegard | 2 |
Roughly 8.3K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 656). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Norwegian Bokmål32K76%
- Norwegian6K14%
- English9902%
- German2721%
- Danish1651%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 32,248 | 76% |
| Norwegian | 5,996 | 14% |
| English | 990 | 2% |
| German | 272 | 1% |
| Danish | 165 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 8 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 6 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 10 |
| 1952 | 11 |
| 1953 | 11 |
| 1954 | 8 |
| 1955 | 13 |
| 1956 | 15 |
| 1957 | 13 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 15 |
| 1961 | 21 |
| 1962 | 22 |
| 1963 | 20 |
| 1964 | 29 |
| 1965 | 39 |
| 1966 | 55 |
| 1967 | 73 |
| 1968 | 64 |
| 1969 | 78 |
| 1970 | 76 |
| 1971 | 72 |
| 1972 | 73 |
| 1973 | 134 |
| 1974 | 148 |
| 1975 | 124 |
| 1976 | 135 |
| 1977 | 131 |
| 1978 | 118 |
| 1979 | 152 |
| 1980 | 145 |
| 1981 | 141 |
| 1982 | 138 |
| 1983 | 157 |
| 1984 | 166 |
| 1985 | 179 |
| 1986 | 220 |
| 1987 | 323 |
| 1988 | 298 |
| 1989 | 295 |
| 1990 | 250 |
| 1991 | 301 |
| 1992 | 289 |
| 1993 | 300 |
| 1994 | 305 |
| 1995 | 226 |
| 1996 | 281 |
| 1997 | 264 |
| 1998 | 255 |
| 1999 | 245 |
| 2000 | 210 |
| 2001 | 185 |
| 2002 | 169 |
| 2003 | 174 |
| 2004 | 154 |
| 2005 | 87 |
| 2006 | 134 |
| 2007 | 91 |
| 2008 | 93 |
| 2009 | 88 |
| 2010 | 73 |
| 2011 | 79 |
| 2012 | 66 |
| 2013 | 53 |
| 2014 | 50 |
| 2015 | 48 |
| 2016 | 60 |
| 2017 | 29 |
| 2018 | 29 |
| 2019 | 39 |
| 2020 | 29 |
| 2021 | 32 |
| 2022 | 31 |
| 2023 | 41 |
| 2024 | 17 |
| 2025 | 20 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 79 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Vegard Ulvangb. 1963NONorwegian cross-country skier
- Vegar Hoelb. 1973NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian television actor and actor (1973–2021)
- Vegard Heggemb. 1975NONorwegian association football player
- Ihsahnb. 1975NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian singer, guitarist and composer
- Vegard Ylvisåkerb. 1979NONorwegian artist and comedian
- Vegard Forrenb. 1988NONorwegian association football player
- Vegard Stake Laengenb. 1989NONorwegian racing cyclist
- Vegard Robinson Buggeb. 1989NONorwegian cyclist
- Vegard Breenb. 1990NONorwegian cyclist
- Hugo Vetlesenb. 2000NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 195 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Vegard?
- We estimate roughly 8.4 thousand people bear Vegard (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Vegard have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 8.3 thousand people bear Vegard in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled vegard.
- Where is Vegard most common?
- Vegard is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 656 people carrying it.
- How common is Vegard compared with other names?
- In Norway, Vegard is the 108th most common given name of 38,312 given names recorded there.
- Is Vegard a male or female name?
- Vegard is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Vegard mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse, feminine equivalent Vegjerd
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vegard” — the 108th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.