Elin

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Elin: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Elin: Recorded every year since 1945, it reached #4 in 1974, and it stood at #263 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
119times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#4highest recorded position
30groupings it qualifies for
39names it appears alongside

What stands out in Elin's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 51 years running. Names by top-100 run
Appears alongside 39 other names across 6 kinds of recorded relationship. All recorded relationships
Shares a published list with another name across 81 years. Longest shared records

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#446
1997	#484
1998	#444
1999	#349
2000	#446
2001	#409
2002	#401
2003	#354
2004	#463
2005	#455
2006	#490
2007	#433
2008	#487
2009	#464
2010	#438
2011	#474
2012	#516
2013	#466
2014	#508
2015	#564
2016	#693
2017	#514
2018	#532
2019	#651
2020	#655
2021	#720
2022	#576
2023	#888
2024	#722

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2025: #263 among girls in Norway, #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #41 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #4 among girls in Norway, in 1974 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #263 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Elin appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 14,756 births with the name.

Elin across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Elin's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#41 (1945)	#4 (1974)	#263 (2025)	81 of 81	14,756 (1945–2025)	654 (1974)
England and Wales · Girls	#446 (1996)	#349 (1999)	#722 (2024)	29 of 29	2,182 (1996–2024)	106 (2003)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#593 (2010)	#524 (2017)	#885 (2025)	8 of 16	34 (2010–2025)	7 (2017)

Elin by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Elin in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	773	5 of 10	155
1950s	2,573	10 of 10	257
1960s	3,636	10 of 10	364
1970sbusiest	4,180	10 of 10	418
1980s	1,862	10 of 10	186
1990s	945	10 of 10	95
2000s	410	10 of 10	41
2010s	260	10 of 10	26
2020s	117	6 of 10	20

Across Norway · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade, averaging 418 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1974 and 1975, when recorded births fell by 161, from 654 to 493.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Elin appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #4 in Norway in 1974.

Elin's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#722	52	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#888	40	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#576	67	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#720	52	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#655	57	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#651	60	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#532	79	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#514	83	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#693	59	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#564	77	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#508	83	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#466	90	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#516	83	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#474	90	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#438	96	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#464	90	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#487	80	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#433	94	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#490	78	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#455	81	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#463	75	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#354	106	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#401	82	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#409	76	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#446	68	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#349	92	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#444	67	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#484	58	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#446	67	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#263	15	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#216	20	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#198	24	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#223	18	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#215	19	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#213	21	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#191	27	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#209	24	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#230	22	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#185	31	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#257	20	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#232	24	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#180	32	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#207	27	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#198	27	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#224	26	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#244	22	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#260	20	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#172	36	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#166	39	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#196	29	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#145	39	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#125	49	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#110	57	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#125	51	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#105	68	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#89	80	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#100	73	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#110	69	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#122	62	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#85	105	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#92	93	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#69	120	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#79	104	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#68	117	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#68	122	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#69	110	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#57	139	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#55	147	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#51	146	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#39	171	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#31	200	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#28	220	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#30	195	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#25	249	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#18	285	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#20	268	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#16	319	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#13	348	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#6	422	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#5	493	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#4	654	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#9	511	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#16	405	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#16	390	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#18	370	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#28	323	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#24	350	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#19	392	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#21	366	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#19	387	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#20	372	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#18	385	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#16	390	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#20	341	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#22	330	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#27	295	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#32	269	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#27	293	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#29	283	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#21	306	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#26	280	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#27	278	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#40	213	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#43	167	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#39	189	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#41	171	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#47	138	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#50	135	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#38	189	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#41	140	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#524	7	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#593	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #4, first reached in 1974.

It held a top-100 place in 53 years, 51 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 654 births, registered in Norway in 1974.

1 registrar ranked it inside their own top 10.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 65 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Elijus · #392, 14y
Elim · #2253, 15y
Elina · #106, 53y
Eline · #32, 65y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kristin · #5, 81y
Liv · #3, 81y
Marianne · #2, 81y
Kristian · #9, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Anita · #4, 81y
Ann · #4, 81y
Henry · #4, 81y
Isak · #4, 66y

Comparisons involving Elin

Existing comparison pages where Elin and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Elin in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Elin vs Torill
In 1945 they stood at #41 and #39 in Norway · Girls, 2 places apart; by 2004 they were #145 and #599.
Elin · Torill · 55 shared years, 1945–2004 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2004 Norway ranking
Elin vs Vigdis
In 1945 they stood at #41 and #32 in Norway · Girls, 9 places apart; by 2006 they were #166 and #583.
Elin · Vigdis · 52 shared years, 1945–2006 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2006 Norway ranking
Elin vs Sissel
In 1945 they stood at #41 and #34 in Norway · Girls, 7 places apart; by 2023 they were #198 and #529.
Elin · Sissel · 62 shared years, 1945–2023 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2023 Norway ranking

Order changes

Pairs where Elin and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Maria vs Elin
In 1977, Maria moved ahead of Elin in Norway · Girls — #22 and #6 the year before became #7 and #13.
Maria · Elin · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · One moved ahead of the other
See the 1977 Norway ranking
Charlotte vs Elin
In Norway · Girls, Charlotte moved into the top 50 at #36 in 1986 as Elin fell out of it to #51, having been #39 the year before.
Charlotte · Elin · 73 shared years, 1946–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 1986 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

Pairs involving Elin measured in Norway's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Elin at its highest position.

Anna vs Elin
Anna and Elin were both ranked in Norway · Girls for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #23 and #263.
Anna · Elin · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Anne vs Elin
Anne and Elin were both ranked in Norway · Girls for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #159 and #263.
Anne · Elin · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Elin vs Astrid
Elin and Astrid were both ranked in Norway · Girls for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #263 and #9.
Elin · Astrid · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Elin was ranked #4 in Norway · Girls in 1974. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Elin and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Elin without appearing here.

Elin moved ahead of

Christina Compare
In 2023 they stood at #888 and #865 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #722 and #1302.
Angela Compare
In 2023 they stood at #888 and #794 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #722 and #1198.
Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #446 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #409 and #871.
Patricia Compare
In 2021 they stood at #720 and #640 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #576 and #963.

Moved ahead of Elin

Kylie Compare
In 2020 they stood at #524 and #651 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2021 that had become #661 and #284.
Bailey Compare
In 2011 they stood at #593 and #758 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #907 and #560.
Sienna Compare
In 2003 they stood at #354 and #427 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #463 and #155.
May Compare
In 2022 they stood at #576 and #630 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #888 and #637.

Moved the opposite way to Elin

Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elin went from #41 to #263 while Elise went from #223 to #63.
Ella Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elin went from #41 to #263 while Ella went from #137 to #4.
Ellinor Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elin went from #41 to #263 while Ellinor went from #102 to #7.
Emma Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elin went from #41 to #263 while Emma went from #342 to #1.

Moved the same way as Elin

Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elin went from #41 to #263 and Åse from #25 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elin went from #41 to #263 and Aud from #13 to #427.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elin went from #41 to #263 and Bjørg from #6 to #369.
Eileen Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elin went from #41 to #263 and Eileen from #324 to #501.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #4 in Norway in 1974. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elin

Elin at a glance

What stands out in Elin's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elin across 3 official records

Elin by decade in Norway · Girls

Elin appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Elin

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Elin

Elin and the names beside it

Elin moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Elin

Moved the opposite way to Elin

Moved the same way as Elin

Elin at a glance

What stands out in Elin's record

Elin across 3 official records

Elin by decade in Norway · Girls

Elin appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Elin

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Elin

Elin and the names beside it

Elin moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Elin

Moved the opposite way to Elin

Moved the same way as Elin