Denmark’s top ten changed very little from 2023 to 2024
Emma and Oscar moved into first place. Across the full top ten, 17 of 20 names were already present a year earlier.
Seventeen of the twenty names stayed in the top ten.
The first-place names changed, but the wider lists remained stable. 9 girls’ names and 8 boys’ names from the 2023 top ten stayed in the 2024 top ten. Across the 20 current names, the median shift was just 1 place.
Girls: 9 of 10 stayed
Boys: 8 of 10 stayed
Three names entered and three names left the top ten.
August had the largest rise
Nora moved from 14th to 10th among girls. August climbed from 11th to 5th among boys, while Theo moved from 13th to 10th. August’s six-place rise was the largest upward move in the current top ten.
Emma and Oscar were already in the top ten
Emma rose from fifth to first and Oscar from third to first. Both were already firmly inside the previous top ten. The first-place names changed, but most of the top ten did not.
Alfred fell five places and remained ninth
Alfred moved from fourth to ninth, the largest drop among the current top-ten names. A five-place fall sounds dramatic, but ninth place still represents 414 newborn boys in the official table.
A rank is a nudge, not a verdict.
If you are choosing from Denmark’s current favorites, a one-year rank should not decide the name. Most of this group moved only a place or two. Use the list to find familiar options, then compare sound, spelling, and family fit.
One official table, two rank columns.
We transcribed the 2024 girls’ and boys’ top tens and each row’s printed 2023 position from Statistics Denmark. Movement equals the 2023 rank minus the 2024 rank; a positive number means the name rose.
“Stayed” means a name’s prior position was 10 or better. The median uses the absolute movement of the 20 names in the current top tens. It does not include names that dropped out.
Statistics Denmark groups spelling variants and labels the group with its most-used spelling. Counts are based on the first given name in CPR data. Hyphenated names count as one name.
The 2024 release is the latest available today; Statistics Denmark schedules the 2025 release for 14 July 2026. This page should be archived or updated when that release lands.