Daily Ancestorugift
Ugift means "unmarried" or "never married"; Norwegian censuses and marriage entries use it for a person who had not been married before.
The prefix u- means not, and NAOB defines ugift as not married and never having been married. So a widow is enke, not ugift, and an unmarried man may also be called ungkarl.
The name-by-name censuses of 1801 and of 1865 onward record each person's marital status, and a marriage entry notes whether each partner was single or widowed.
As seen in a recordHousehold list of the 1865 census of Norway
Tosten Halvorsen, Tjenestedreng, ugift, 24 Aar
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Daily Ancestor. "ugift." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/norwegian/ugift. Last checked 2026-10-28.