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A name. A world of connections.
“Norse god + bear”
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01 / Meaning & origin
Esben is a masculine given name documented in Danish, Finnish and Norwegian. Danish Wikipedia gives the components Norse god + bear.
Meaning: “Norse god + bear”
No etymology text in the cited sources.
02 / Across borders
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3 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.
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Published statistics
United States, 2025: 6 boys (rank 10695).
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
1945–2025 Spelling: Esben
Recorded category boys
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Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1946 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1947 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1948 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1949 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1950 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1951 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1952 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1953 | 5 | 354 | observed |
| 1954 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1955 | 5 | 376 | observed |
| 1956 | 4 | 415 | observed |
| 1957 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1958 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1959 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1960 | 7 | 370 | observed |
| 1961 | 9 | 317 | observed |
| 1962 | 8 | 348 | observed |
| 1963 | 8 | 355 | observed |
| 1964 | 9 | 353 | observed |
| 1965 | 14 | 275 | observed |
| 1966 | 7 | 413 | observed |
| 1967 | 17 | 251 | observed |
| 1968 | 12 | 309 | observed |
| 1969 | 6 | 464 | observed |
| 1970 | 11 | 341 | observed |
| 1971 | 15 | 288 | observed |
| 1972 | 17 | 275 | observed |
| 1973 | 11 | 364 | observed |
| 1974 | 12 | 342 | observed |
| 1975 | 13 | 315 | observed |
| 1976 | 12 | 351 | observed |
| 1977 | 11 | 370 | observed |
| 1978 | 10 | 384 | observed |
| 1979 | 4 | 603 | observed |
| 1980 | 10 | 397 | observed |
| 1981 | 6 | 526 | observed |
| 1982 | 14 | 323 | observed |
| 1983 | 11 | 373 | observed |
| 1984 | 8 | 456 | observed |
| 1985 | 14 | 322 | observed |
| 1986 | 10 | 404 | observed |
| 1987 | 7 | 481 | observed |
| 1988 | 14 | 319 | observed |
| 1989 | 10 | 397 | observed |
| 1990 | 8 | 446 | observed |
| 1991 | 7 | 473 | observed |
| 1992 | 9 | 388 | observed |
| 1993 | 9 | 391 | observed |
| 1994 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1995 | 6 | 473 | observed |
| 1996 | 6 | 459 | observed |
| 1997 | 5 | 487 | observed |
| 1998 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1999 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | 4 | 525 | observed |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2004 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2005 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “Esben” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
No historical attestations or sourced notable bearers are recorded yet. Historical databases are being evaluated for reuse permission; nothing is listed until a record can be cited.
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
