Embla

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Embla: Recorded every year since 1993, its highest recorded position is #96, reached in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
33years from first to last
#96highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2019–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2019	#5591
2021	#5581
2024	#4192

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 every year from 1993 to 2025.

In 2024: #102 among girls in Norway, #4192 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1993–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1993
First recorded at #257 among girls in Norway in 1993 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1993–2025
Highest recorded position: #96 among girls in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 1993–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #96 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Embla appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 33 years beginning in 1993, and has registered 1,057 births with the name.

Embla across 2 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.

Embla'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	#257 (1993)	#96 (2025)	#96 (2025)	33 of 33	1,057 (1993–2025)	62 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#5591 (2019)	#4192 (2024)	#4192 (2024)	3 of 6	11 (2019–2024)	5 (2024)

Embla 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 Embla in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	163	7 of 10	23
2000s	290	10 of 10	29
2010s	305	10 of 10	31
2020sbusiest	299	6 of 10	50

Across Norway · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 50 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Embla 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 2 regions, from 1993 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #96 in Norway in 2025.

Embla'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	#4192	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#96	62	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#102	53	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#98	58	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#119	44	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#128	39	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#118	43	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#154	33	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#176	30	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#165	34	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#186	31	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#206	26	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#169	35	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#167	36	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#241	23	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#183	31	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#225	26	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#205	29	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#218	27	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#182	33	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#196	31	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#226	24	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#232	22	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#202	26	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#157	35	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#156	37	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#200	26	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#182	31	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#200	26	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#247	18	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#203	26	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#258	18	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#223	24	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#257	20	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1993 and 2025, ranked in 33 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #96, first reached in 2025.

It held a top-100 place in 2 years.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 62 births, registered in Norway in 2025.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 26 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.

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Ember · #215, 24y
Emel · #1958, 24y
Emeli · #167, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Macauley · #95, 29y
Perry · #95, 30y
Wade · #95, 33y
Baby · #93, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Autumn · #96, 30y
Cohen · #96, 30y
Keanu · #96, 30y
Kora · #96, 27y

Embla was ranked #96 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.

Embla 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 Embla without appearing here.

Embla moved ahead of

Tina Compare
In 2012 they stood at #241 and #239 in Norway · Girls; by 2013 that had become #167 and #412.
Kine Compare
In 2012 they stood at #241 and #227 in Norway · Girls; by 2013 that had become #167 and #366.
Bente Compare
In 1995 they stood at #258 and #206 in Norway · Girls; by 1996 that had become #203 and #397.
Jane Compare
In 1993 they stood at #257 and #245 in Norway · Girls; by 1994 that had become #223 and #389.

Moved ahead of Embla

Hedvig Compare
In 2011 they stood at #183 and #188 in Norway · Girls; by 2012 that had become #241 and #130.
Selma Compare
In 1994 they stood at #223 and #284 in Norway · Girls; by 1995 that had become #258 and #159.
Ella Compare
In 1996 they stood at #203 and #257 in Norway · Girls; by 1997 that had become #247 and #189.
Alma Compare
In 2002 they stood at #157 and #291 in Norway · Girls; by 2003 that had become #202 and #154.

Moved the opposite way to Embla

Alexandra Compare
Between 1993 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Embla went from #257 to #96 while Alexandra went from #129 to #212.
Andrea Compare
Between 1993 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Embla went from #257 to #96 while Andrea went from #20 to #98.
Anita Compare
Between 1993 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Embla went from #257 to #96 while Anita went from #103 to #459.
Anna Compare
Between 1993 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Embla went from #257 to #96 while Anna went from #15 to #23.

Moved the same way as Embla

Ada Compare
Between 1993 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Embla went from #257 to #96 and Ada from #240 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1993 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Embla went from #257 to #96 and Alma from #520 to #8.
Amalie Compare
Between 1993 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Embla went from #257 to #96 and Amalie from #63 to #25.
Amanda Compare
Between 1993 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Embla went from #257 to #96 and Amanda from #87 to #52.

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 2 regions, from 1993 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #96 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Embla

Embla at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Embla across 2 official records

Embla by decade in Norway · Girls

Embla appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Embla at a glance

Embla across 2 official records

Embla by decade in Norway · Girls

Embla 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 Embla

Embla and the names beside it

Embla moved ahead of

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