Vetle
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vetle 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.
- NONorway1 in 1.2K◐
- ISIceland1 in 117K
- DKDenmark1 in 128K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.8K ●
- Sources
- 14 ●
- 1 in 1.2K ◐
across 5 countries
49 records
Community-sourced
Norway
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Roughly 4.7K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 1.2K). 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 Bokmål18K89%
- Norwegian1.1K6%
- English2351%
- Danish1321%
- German531%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 17,580 | 89% |
| Norwegian | 1,150 | 6% |
| English | 235 | 1% |
| Danish | 132 | 1% |
| German | 53 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1959 | 4 |
| 1971 | 7 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1979 | 4 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 9 |
| 1988 | 14 |
| 1989 | 24 |
| 1990 | 35 |
| 1991 | 66 |
| 1992 | 87 |
| 1993 | 113 |
| 1994 | 95 |
| 1995 | 116 |
| 1996 | 120 |
| 1997 | 113 |
| 1998 | 126 |
| 1999 | 143 |
| 2000 | 143 |
| 2001 | 132 |
| 2002 | 138 |
| 2003 | 180 |
| 2004 | 141 |
| 2005 | 139 |
| 2006 | 135 |
| 2007 | 127 |
| 2008 | 131 |
| 2009 | 133 |
| 2010 | 131 |
| 2011 | 112 |
| 2012 | 110 |
| 2013 | 120 |
| 2014 | 134 |
| 2015 | 99 |
| 2016 | 106 |
| 2017 | 113 |
| 2018 | 128 |
| 2019 | 128 |
| 2020 | 116 |
| 2021 | 145 |
| 2022 | 156 |
| 2023 | 163 |
| 2024 | 178 |
| 2025 | 195 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 47 years between 1959–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Vetle Vislieb. 1858NONorwegian educator and writer (1858-1933)
- Vetle Lid Larssenb. 1960NONorwegian journalist and writer
- Vetle Vinjeb. 1962NONorwegian rower and geophysicist
- Vetle Andersenb. 1964NONorwegian football player
- Vetle Sjåstad Christiansenb. 1992NONorwegian biathlete
- Vetle Wang Soleimb. 1993NONorwegian Centre Party politician from Møre og Romsdal County
- Vetle Dragsnesb. 1994NONorwegian footballer
- Vetle Qvenild Werringb. 2000NONorwegian actor
- Vetle Walle Egelib. 2004NONorwegian footballer (born 2004)
- Vetle Auklendb. 2005NONorwegian 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 14 sources across 7 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 · 191 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Vetle?
- We estimate roughly 4.8 thousand people bear Vetle (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Vetle have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.7 thousand people bear Vetle in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled vetle.
- Where is Vetle most common?
- Vetle is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Vetle a male or female name?
- Vetle 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 Vetle mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vetleThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Vetle”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.