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“army” + “minor goddess”
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01 / Meaning & origin
Herdis is a unisex given name documented in German, Danish, Finnish and 2 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Herdís, from the components “army” + “minor goddess”.
Separate records with matching spellings: Herdís (Icelandic)
Meaning: “army” + “minor goddess”
Old Norse Herdís, from herr (“army”) + dís (“minor goddess”).
02 / Across borders
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2 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, 1946: 7 boys (rank 2919).
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
1945–2025 Spelling: Herdis
Recorded category girls
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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 | 16 | 223 | observed |
| 1946 | 24 | 181 | observed |
| 1947 | 24 | 182 | observed |
| 1948 | 23 | 174 | observed |
| 1949 | 21 | 186 | observed |
| 1950 | 32 | 141 | observed |
| 1951 | 22 | 181 | observed |
| 1952 | 28 | 156 | observed |
| 1953 | 25 | 170 | observed |
| 1954 | 22 | 175 | observed |
| 1955 | 16 | 217 | observed |
| 1956 | 13 | 238 | observed |
| 1957 | 14 | 225 | observed |
| 1958 | 20 | 186 | observed |
| 1959 | 15 | 229 | observed |
| 1960 | 13 | 243 | observed |
| 1961 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1962 | 7 | 359 | observed |
| 1963 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1964 | 8 | 354 | observed |
| 1965 | 11 | 307 | observed |
| 1966 | 10 | 328 | observed |
| 1967 | 13 | 269 | observed |
| 1968 | 9 | 359 | observed |
| 1969 | 5 | 481 | observed |
| 1970 | 6 | 468 | observed |
| 1971 | 6 | 469 | observed |
| 1972 | 7 | 455 | observed |
| 1973 | 6 | 471 | observed |
| 1974 | 9 | 393 | observed |
| 1975 | 9 | 383 | observed |
| 1976 | 4 | 585 | observed |
| 1977 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1978 | 8 | 414 | observed |
| 1979 | 4 | 608 | observed |
| 1980 | 5 | 551 | observed |
| 1981 | 4 | 609 | observed |
| 1982 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1983 | 5 | 562 | observed |
| 1984 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1985 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1986 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1987 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1988 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1989 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1990 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1991 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1992 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1993 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1994 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1995 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1996 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1997 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1998 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1999 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2000 | 5 | 531 | observed |
| 2001 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 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 “Herdis” 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
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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
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.
