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Stig

“wanderer”

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Origin: Old Norse
6 language contexts: French Dutch Swedish +3 more
Follow the evidence: 9 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Stig

Stig is a masculine given name documented in French, Dutch, Swedish and 3 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Stígr. English Wikipedia gives the meaning “wanderer”.

Old Norse origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “wanderer”

From Old Norse Stígr, made famous by Stig Hvide, a legendary Danish chieftain.

Sources for this account (6)

Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia: Stig (given name)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

02 / Across borders

Where Stig is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Stig’s connections around the world.

5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2018: 5 boys (rank 12156).

Explore United States

4 of 11 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Norway

1945–2025 Spelling: Stig

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2021: 4; births; Rank #454
Peak year: 1969; 438 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

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.

Show the data table

Stig in Norway, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1945	44	119	observed
1946	66	100	observed
1947	51	113	observed
1948	52	104	observed
1949	63	99	observed
1950	55	107	observed
1951	82	88	observed
1952	108	71	observed
1953	138	60	observed
1954	165	51	observed
1955	160	52	observed
1956	158	53	observed
1957	145	52	observed
1958	175	49	observed
1959	225	39	observed
1960	235	37	observed
1961	234	39	observed
1962	290	27	observed
1963	257	36	observed
1964	354	21	observed
1965	340	25	observed
1966	346	26	observed
1967	398	21	observed
1968	413	19	observed
1969	438	17	observed
1970	434	14	observed
1971	413	16	observed
1972	391	17	observed
1973	329	21	observed
1974	303	27	observed
1975	287	23	observed
1976	226	30	observed
1977	213	34	observed
1978	190	40	observed
1979	197	37	observed
1980	180	42	observed
1981	190	40	observed
1982	144	54	observed
1983	166	43	observed
1984	152	50	observed
1985	120	60	observed
1986	118	62	observed
1987	131	60	observed
1988	94	81	observed
1989	89	85	observed
1990	76	99	observed
1991	70	103	observed
1992	68	105	observed
1993	60	114	observed
1994	41	157	observed
1995	37	172	observed
1996	31	188	observed
1997	28	198	observed
1998	20	245	observed
1999	17	251	observed
2000	23	221	observed
2001	12	303	observed
2002	12	295	observed
2003	12	304	observed
2004	10	327	observed
2005	4	516	observed
2006	4	530	observed
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	5	493	observed
2009	6	473	observed
2010	5	489	observed
2011	4	527	observed
2012	7	434	observed
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	4	511	observed
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	4	454	observed
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

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Stig” 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.

Universe: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Stig Inge Bjørnebye
born 1969
Norwegian association football player and manager
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Stig Dagerman
1923–1954
Swedish writer (1923–1954)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Stig Rästa
born 1980
Estonian singer and songwriter (born 1980)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Stig Blomqvist
born 1946
Swedish rally driver, winner of the 1984 World Rally Championship for Drivers
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Stig Tøfting
born 1969
Danish footballer
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Stig with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q2003540CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia: Stig (given name)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Stig.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:Nl-Stig.oggCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

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
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

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.

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About Stig

Stig is a masculine given name documented in French, Dutch, Swedish and 3 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Stígr. English Wikipedia gives the meaning “wanderer”.

Old Norse origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “wanderer”

From Old Norse Stígr, made famous by Stig Hvide, a legendary Danish chieftain.

Sources for this account (6)

Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia: Stig (given name)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Where Stig is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Stig’s connections around the world.

5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2018: 5 boys (rank 12156).

Explore United States

4 of 11 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Norway

1945–2025 Spelling: Stig

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2021: 4; births; Rank #454
Peak year: 1969; 438 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

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.

Show the data table

Stig in Norway, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1945	44	119	observed
1946	66	100	observed
1947	51	113	observed
1948	52	104	observed
1949	63	99	observed
1950	55	107	observed
1951	82	88	observed
1952	108	71	observed
1953	138	60	observed
1954	165	51	observed
1955	160	52	observed
1956	158	53	observed
1957	145	52	observed
1958	175	49	observed
1959	225	39	observed
1960	235	37	observed
1961	234	39	observed
1962	290	27	observed
1963	257	36	observed
1964	354	21	observed
1965	340	25	observed
1966	346	26	observed
1967	398	21	observed
1968	413	19	observed
1969	438	17	observed
1970	434	14	observed
1971	413	16	observed
1972	391	17	observed
1973	329	21	observed
1974	303	27	observed
1975	287	23	observed
1976	226	30	observed
1977	213	34	observed
1978	190	40	observed
1979	197	37	observed
1980	180	42	observed
1981	190	40	observed
1982	144	54	observed
1983	166	43	observed
1984	152	50	observed
1985	120	60	observed
1986	118	62	observed
1987	131	60	observed
1988	94	81	observed
1989	89	85	observed
1990	76	99	observed
1991	70	103	observed
1992	68	105	observed
1993	60	114	observed
1994	41	157	observed
1995	37	172	observed
1996	31	188	observed
1997	28	198	observed
1998	20	245	observed
1999	17	251	observed
2000	23	221	observed
2001	12	303	observed
2002	12	295	observed
2003	12	304	observed
2004	10	327	observed
2005	4	516	observed
2006	4	530	observed
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	5	493	observed
2009	6	473	observed
2010	5	489	observed
2011	4	527	observed
2012	7	434	observed
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	4	511	observed
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	4	454	observed
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

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Stig Inge Bjørnebye
born 1969
Norwegian association football player and manager
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Stig Dagerman
1923–1954
Swedish writer (1923–1954)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Stig Rästa
born 1980
Estonian singer and songwriter (born 1980)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Stig Blomqvist
born 1946
Swedish rally driver, winner of the 1984 World Rally Championship for Drivers
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Stig Tøfting
born 1969
Danish footballer
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q2003540CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Dutch Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: StigCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia: Stig (given name)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Stig.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:Nl-Stig.oggCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

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
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

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.

Stig

About Stig

Old Norse origin

Where Stig is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Notable bearers

Stig Inge Bjørnebye

Stig Dagerman

Stig Rästa

Stig Blomqvist

Stig Tøfting

Stiig

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Stig

About Stig

Old Norse origin

Where Stig is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Notable bearers

Stig Inge Bjørnebye

Stig Dagerman

Stig Rästa

Stig Blomqvist

Stig Tøfting

Stiig

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Stig

Old Norse origin

Where Stig is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Notable bearers

Stig Inge Bjørnebye

Stig Dagerman

Stig Rästa

Stig Blomqvist

Stig Tøfting

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Stiig

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Stig

Old Norse origin

Where Stig is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Notable bearers

Stig Inge Bjørnebye

Stig Dagerman

Stig Rästa

Stig Blomqvist

Stig Tøfting

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Stiig

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page