Elli

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Elli: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #165, reached in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#165highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1031
1997	#874
1998	#1211
1999	#703
2000	#804
2001	#657
2002	#643
2003	#666
2004	#883
2005	#1406
2006	#1280
2007	#1234
2008	#1815
2009	#1752
2010	#2104
2011	#1807
2012	#2095
2013	#1956
2014	#2659
2015	#3615
2016	#2233
2017	#3583
2018	#3178
2019	#2643
2020	#4535
2021	#5581
2022	#5669
2023	#4056
2024	#4843

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 England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #277 among girls in Norway, #4843 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1031 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2024–2025
Highest recorded position: #165 among girls in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 2024–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #165 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Elli appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 484 births with the name.

Elli 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.

Elli'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
England and Wales · Girls	#1031 (1996)	#643 (2002)	#4843 (2024)	29 of 29	484 (1996–2024)	43 (2003)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#606 (2001)	#559 (2003)	#559 (2003)	2 of 3	7 (2001–2003)	4 (2003)
Norway · Girls	#277 (2024)	#165 (2025)	#165 (2025)	2 of 2	44 (2024–2025)	30 (2025)

Elli by decade in England and Wales · 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 Elli in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	93	4 of 10	23
2000sbusiest	269	10 of 10	27
2010s	103	10 of 10	10
2020s	19	5 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 27 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Elli 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #165 in Norway in 2025.

Elli'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	#4843	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2659	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1956	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2095	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1807	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2104	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1752	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1234	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1280	20	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1406	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#883	30	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#666	43	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#643	42	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#657	39	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#804	28	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#703	33	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1211	16	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#874	25	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1031	19	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#165	30	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#277	14	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #165, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 43 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 28 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.

Ellena · #312, 29y
Ellery · #1541, 21y
Ellia · #920, 28y
Elliana · #555, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Marshall · #165, 29y
Jaden · #164, 30y
Che · #167, 29y
Eesa · #167, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ayesha · #165, 33y
Caden · #165, 28y
Colby · #165, 30y
Marshall · #165, 29y

Elli was ranked #165 in Norway · Girls in 2025. 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.

Elli 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 Elli without appearing here.

Elli moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5669 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #5687.
Donna Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5669 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #5687.
Tracey Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4535 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #5687.
Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Elli

Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #4535 and #1939.
Mona Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #4535 and #2042.
Francis Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #4686 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #4535 and #2449.
Finn Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3583 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3519.

Moved the opposite way to Elli

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elli went from #1031 to #4843 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elli went from #1031 to #4843 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elli went from #1031 to #4843 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elli went from #1031 to #4843 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Elli

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elli went from #1031 to #4843 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elli went from #1031 to #4843 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elli went from #1031 to #4843 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elli went from #1031 to #4843 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #165 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elli

Elli at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elli across 3 official records

Elli by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Elli appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Elli

Elli and the names beside it

Elli moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Elli

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Elli at a glance

Elli across 3 official records

Elli by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Elli appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Elli

Elli and the names beside it

Elli moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Elli

Moved the opposite way to Elli

Moved the same way as Elli