Given name & surname · also Norwegian
Nordahl
Nordahl is a surname from Norwegian, ultimately from Swedish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Nordahl comes from Norwegian, and ultimately from Swedish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nordahl through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1917. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 696 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nordahl’s family of names
Nordahl may belong to the same name family as Norrdahl. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Nordahl
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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