Einar
Einar was given to 47 boys in 2025, #2,724 among boys’ names; 1,563 Americans have been recorded with it since 1893 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Einar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Einar mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Einar is “a male given name from Old Norse”
From Old Norse Einarr.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Einar?
#2,724 among boys’ names, 2025
Einar rose from #11,062 in 2015 to #2,724 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 27.5 per million.
60 babies in 1915, the peak
Einar peaked in 1915, when 60 boys were given it, #777 among boys’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #2,724 | 27.5 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,231 | 21.5 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,918 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,483 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,597 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,903 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,635 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,509 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,804 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,749 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #11,062 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,184 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,807 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,152 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,493 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,069 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,571 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,949 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,202 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,184 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,744 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,879 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,388 | 2.6 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,541 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,503 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,247 | 3.0 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,822 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,790 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,538 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,645 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,329 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,139 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,989 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,071 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,417 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,129 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,608 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,398 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,185 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,128 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,318 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,851 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,713 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,418 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,125 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,587 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,350 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,370 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,113 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,882 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,033 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,826 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,348 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,214 | 6.6 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,933 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,542 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,117 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,498 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,658 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,406 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,446 | 6.2 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,442 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,693 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,606 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 18 | #1,697 | 13.0 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,932 | 11.4 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,108 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,507 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,011 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 16 | #1,776 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,335 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,430 | 9.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,615 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,663 | 18.2 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,483 | 22.0 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,233 | 11.5 |
| 1930 | 15 | #1,995 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 16 | #1,950 | 14.9 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,536 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,527 | 22.2 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,385 | 25.2 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,367 | 26.0 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,072 | 14.1 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,365 | 26.5 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,663 | 20.2 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,848 | 17.3 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,282 | 30.1 |
| 1919 | 42 | #1,054 | 42.9 |
| 1918 | 45 | #1,000 | 44.4 |
| 1917 | 43 | #997 | 46.5 |
| 1916 | 48 | #918 | 53.9 |
| 1915 | 60 | #777 | 70.7 |
| 1914 | 36 | #910 | 55.0 |
| 1913 | 35 | #807 | 68.3 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,105 | 41.9 |
| 1911 | 16 | #835 | 70.8 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,233 | 41.2 |
| 1909 | 15 | #729 | 91.5 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,137 | 45.4 |
| 1907 | 12 | #783 | 81.7 |
| 1906 | 10 | #809 | 75.1 |
| 1905 | 9 | #857 | 68.0 |
| 1904 | 7 | #992 | 54.6 |
| 1903 | 7 | #933 | 58.7 |
| 1902 | 9 | #811 | 73.4 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,365 | 33.2 |
| 1899 | 7 | #879 | 65.9 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,037 | 48.9 |
| 1897 | 8 | #804 | 70.9 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,015 | 50.2 |
| 1895 | 8 | #812 | 68.1 |
| 1894 | 7 | #886 | 60.5 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,083 | 44.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Einar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Einar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 113 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Einar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Einar, and how old are they?
An estimated 604 Americans named Einar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (39% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 5 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 709 people named Einar (8 women and girls, 701 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 477 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Einar born?
The states with the most babies named Einar are Minnesota, North Dakota and Texas, with 72% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and North Dakota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 105 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| North Dakota | 41 | not ranked | 4.9× |
| Texas | 27 | #1,957 | 0.3× |
| California | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Einar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Einar is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 3.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Einar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,775 babies since 1880, Einar is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 60 babies (78%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Einar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Einar and names like it
- Compare Einar and EinerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEinar peaked in 1915.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Einar since 1910.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Einar.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Einar alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.