Elsa

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Elsa: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #55, and it stood at #134 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
147times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#55highest recorded position
28groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#661
1997	#736
1998	#589
1999	#548
2000	#591
2001	#496
2002	#540
2003	#462
2004	#492
2005	#427
2006	#398
2007	#382
2008	#323
2009	#283
2010	#224
2011	#182
2012	#177
2013	#183
2014	#104
2015	#262
2016	#382
2017	#405
2018	#437
2019	#496
2020	#537
2021	#567
2022	#624
2023	#540
2024	#558

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 78 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2025: #134 among girls in Norway, #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #55 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: #55 among girls in Norway, in 1945 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #134 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Elsa appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 78 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 2,073 births with the name.

Elsa across 4 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.

Elsa'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	#55 (1945)	#55 (1945)	#134 (2025)	78 of 81	2,073 (1945–2025)	120 (1946)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#490 (1974)	#158 (2014)	#608 (2025)	28 of 52	279 (1974–2025)	37 (2014)
England and Wales · Girls	#661 (1996)	#104 (2014)	#558 (2024)	29 of 29	3,630 (1996–2024)	537 (2014)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#331 (2003)	#171 (2014)	#397 (2020)	11 of 18	66 (2003–2020)	12 (2014)

Elsa 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 Elsa in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	532	5 of 10	106
1950s	430	10 of 10	43
1960s	158	10 of 10	16
1970s	109	9 of 10	12
1980s	96	10 of 10	10
1990s	84	9 of 10	9
2000s	122	9 of 10	14
2010s	329	10 of 10	33
2020s	213	6 of 10	36

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 106 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1950 and 1951, when recorded births fell by 28, from 76 to 48.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Elsa 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 5 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #55 in Norway in 1945.

Elsa'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	#558	70	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#540	72	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#624	61	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#567	69	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#537	74	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#496	83	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#437	100	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#405	108	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#382	119	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#262	190	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#104	537	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#183	286	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#177	286	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#182	280	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#224	223	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#283	168	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#323	139	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#382	110	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#398	105	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#427	87	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#492	68	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#462	73	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#540	55	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#496	59	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#591	45	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#548	51	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#589	44	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#736	32	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#661	36	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#209	9	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#171	12	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#199	10	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#330	5	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#311	5	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#237	8	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#309	5	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#331	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#134	41	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#139	37	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#134	39	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#137	36	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#168	27	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#147	33	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#116	46	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#141	39	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#188	28	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#148	40	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#134	47	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#139	45	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#186	31	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#249	22	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#328	14	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#286	17	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#331	14	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#306	16	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#321	14	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#264	18	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#289	16	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#380	10	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#307	13	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#293	14	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#458	7	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#425	8	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#499	6	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#328	12	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#302	14	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#404	9	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#334	13	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#468	8	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#544	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#474	8	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#479	8	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#418	10	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#601	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#505	7	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#417	10	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#431	9	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#334	12	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#365	11	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#401	9	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#297	15	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#358	11	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#396	9	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#345	11	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#424	8	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#374	10	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#292	14	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#251	18	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#276	15	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#291	13	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#278	14	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#257	16	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#243	16	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#223	17	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#251	15	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#307	11	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#241	15	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#183	20	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#193	21	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#246	13	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#127	35	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#155	27	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#147	29	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#112	47	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#140	36	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#128	38	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#114	45	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#106	49	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#107	48	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#82	76	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#72	84	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#60	104	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#58	115	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#59	120	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#55	109	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#495	7	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#430	9	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#396	10	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#276	18	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#158	37	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#207	27	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#295	17	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#220	24	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#276	19	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#379	12	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#546	7	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#624	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#238	18	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#370	8	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#490	5	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	4	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#465	4	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#425	4	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#534	3	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#490	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	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
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 80 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #55, first reached in 1945.

It held a top-100 place in 6 years, 6 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 537 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1974, and 79 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.

Elowyn · #377, 15y
Elroy · #3254, 10y
Elsbeth · #1809, 29y
Else · #15, 80y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 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.

Klara · #54, 76y
Marion · #57, 81y
Mohammad · #53, 81y
Tomas · #53, 79y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Arve · #55, 64y
Jonny · #55, 79y
Karina · #55, 71y
Ståle · #55, 63y

Elsa was ranked #55 in Norway · Girls in 1945. 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.

Elsa 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 Elsa without appearing here.

Elsa moved ahead of

Janet Compare
In 2009 they stood at #490 and #439 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2010 that had become #276 and #910.
Pamela Compare
In 2013 they stood at #624 and #624 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #158 and #752.
Ingrid Compare
In 2010 they stood at #512 and #512 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2011 that had become #220 and #798.
Carmel Compare
In 2008 they stood at #624 and #624 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #379 and #893.

Moved ahead of Elsa

Charlie Compare
In 2015 they stood at #276 and #316 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #661 and #288.
Sadie Compare
In 2006 they stood at #238 and #367 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2007 that had become #624 and #267.
Maeve Compare
In 2018 they stood at #437 and #507 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #496 and #218.
Amanda Compare
In 1985 they stood at #417 and #433 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #505 and #253.

Moved the opposite way to Elsa

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elsa went from #55 to #134 while Ada went from #229 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elsa went from #55 to #134 while Alma went from #293 to #8.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elsa went from #55 to #134 while Elise went from #223 to #63.
Ella Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elsa went from #55 to #134 while Ella went from #137 to #4.

Moved the same way as Elsa

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elsa went from #55 to #134 and Anita from #162 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elsa went from #55 to #134 and Anne from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elsa went from #55 to #134 and Åse from #25 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elsa went from #55 to #134 and Aud from #13 to #427.

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 5 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #55 in Norway in 1945. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elsa

Elsa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elsa across 4 official records

Elsa by decade in Norway · Girls

Elsa 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

Names published alongside Elsa

Elsa and the names beside it

Elsa moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Elsa

Moved the opposite way to Elsa

Moved the same way as Elsa

Elsa at a glance

Elsa across 4 official records

Elsa by decade in Norway · Girls

Elsa appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Elsa

Elsa and the names beside it

Elsa moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Elsa

Moved the opposite way to Elsa

Moved the same way as Elsa