Astrid
Feminine · “Divinely beautiful”
Astrid is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 14,145 girls against 8 boys since 1880.
Astrid began as the Old Norse Ástríðr, a name carried by queens of Scandinavia in the Viking age and never really put down since. It is two syllables that land cleanly — the stress on the front, the -str- in the middle giving it its grip — and it works unchanged in Swedish, German, Dutch and Spanish alike.
How old is the name Astrid?
Astrid first appears in US birth records in 1892 — 133 years ago. The typical Astrid is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 13,000 people named Astrid are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Astrid most popular?
Astrid peaked in 2025, reaching #376 nationally. Today it ranks #376, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Astrid appears on these lists:
Works in Scandinavian families too:
Where it comes from
From Ástríðr to Astrid
The story of Astrid
Ástríðr is an Old Norse compound of áss, 'god', and fríðr, 'fair', and it belonged to the medieval Scandinavian nobility — Astrid Olofsdotter, daughter of the Swedish king, married Olaf II of Norway in the eleventh century. The older Danish and Swedish form Estrid was in use in the same period. The modern spelling stayed steadily in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and traveled outward twice in the twentieth century: with Princess Astrid of Sweden, who became Queen of the Belgians, and with the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, whose books are read across Europe. It reached the United States early, with Scandinavian immigration to the upper Midwest, and it is at home in Spanish-speaking countries as well, which is part of why it turns up widely in the southern and western states.
Meaning
Divinely beautiful — from Old Norse áss, 'god', and fríðr, 'fair, beautiful'
The second element fríðr is also read as 'beloved' in some Norse names, which shifts the sense slightly toward 'beloved of the gods'; the first element, áss, is not in dispute.
How the name formed
- Ástríðr
- Estrid
- Åstrid
- Astrid
Related forms: Ástríðr · Ástríður · Estrid · Åsta · Asta · Astrid
Pronouncing Astrid
AS-trid
Stress on the first syllable; the second rhymes with 'did'. Swedish and Norwegian speakers use a broader first vowel, closer to AH-strid, and both are recognized.
Nicknames for Astrid
High
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1892
- Most girls named
- 2025818 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #376reached in 2025
- Change vs 2022
- +5.3%818 in 2025, from 777
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Astrid in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ástríðr in Old Norse — same name
- Ástríður in Icelandic — same name
- Estrid in Danish — related form
- Åsta in Norwegian — related form
- Asta in Finnish — related form
- Astrid in German — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Astrids among us
people named Astrid are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 1,965 born in 2025 was named Astrid
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Precious test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Astrid's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Precious climbed just as high around 1996, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Precious's path sketches the road Astrid is walking now.
Astrid is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Astrid is headed
Astrid looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 15% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Astrid beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Astrid in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled the way it sounds in English, and the same six letters work in Swedish, German, Dutch, French and Spanish without adjustment.
- A documented record running unbroken from the Viking age to the present, so it is old without being a revival curiosity.
- Short forms already exist and are centuries old — Astri, Asta, Sassa — rather than having to be invented.
- Unambiguously a girl's name in every language that uses it, with no competing masculine line.
- The -str- cluster is a mouthful for a toddler learning to say their own name, and for other small children saying it back. Most families find it sorts itself out, but the first couple of years can involve some 'Assi' or 'Asti'.
- It is climbing quickly in the United States. A child born now is unlikely to share it in a classroom, but the name will be noticeably more familiar by the time they are grown than it is today.
- Expect an occasional slide into 'Astrid' being heard as 'Ashtrid' or written as 'Astride', and a fair number of people will connect it first to the character in How to Train Your Dragon rather than to anything Norse.
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Feminine · #376 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Astrids are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 13,000 people named Astrid are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Astrid in 2025?
- Astrid ranks #376 among US girl names in 2025, with 818 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Astrid?
- About 1 in every 1,965 US girls born in 2025 was named Astrid — 818 in all.
- Will my child share the name Astrid with classmates?
- Astrid will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Astrid
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Vanessa#377 · Anya#375 · Malani#374 · Ivory#378 · Laura#379 · Esmeralda#373 · Mallory#372 · Amari#380
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