Eskil

maleStatistical record

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

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

Eskil: Recorded since 1954, it reached #72 in 2002, and it stood at #152 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
67times a registrar ranked it
72years from first to last
#72highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Eskil's record

Moved 150 places between two consecutive years — its largest recorded change. Names by largest single-year move

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 2011–2018

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2011	#4647
2018	#4749

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 65 of the 72 years from 1954 to 2025.

In 2018: #157 among boys in Norway, #4749 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1954–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1954
First recorded at #379 among boys in Norway in 1954 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1954–2025
Highest recorded position: #72 among boys in Norway, in 2002 (recorded 1954–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #152 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Eskil appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 65 years beginning in 1954, and has registered 2,530 births with the name.

Eskil 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.

Eskil'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 · Boys	#379 (1954)	#72 (2002)	#152 (2025)	65 of 72	2,530 (1954–2025)	119 (2006)
England and Wales · Boys	#4647 (2011)	#4647 (2011)	#4749 (2018)	2 of 8	6 (2011–2018)	3 (2011)

Eskil by decade in Norway · Boys

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 Eskil in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	5	1 of 10	5
1960s	65	8 of 10	8
1970s	139	10 of 10	14
1980s	186	10 of 10	19
1990s	416	10 of 10	42
2000sbusiest	978	10 of 10	98
2010s	553	10 of 10	55
2020s	188	6 of 10	31

Across Norway · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 98 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2004 and 2005, when recorded births rose by 35, from 77 to 112.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Eskil 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 1954 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #72 in Norway in 2006.

Eskil'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
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#152	35	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#163	30	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#175	30	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#166	30	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#153	33	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#153	30	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#159	36	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#157	38	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#143	43	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#136	50	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#147	43	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#138	49	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#136	51	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#111	70	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#91	91	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#100	82	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#85	98	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#79	118	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#92	88	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#72	119	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#75	112	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#99	77	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#78	97	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#72	100	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#90	79	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#87	90	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#108	66	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#118	60	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#137	51	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#133	52	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#196	31	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#148	45	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#183	34	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#203	31	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#230	25	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#245	21	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#246	22	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#366	12	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#295	16	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#244	23	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#327	14	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#382	11	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#232	23	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#249	21	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#279	17	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#215	27	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#339	13	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#285	16	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#306	14	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#296	15	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#372	11	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#285	16	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#269	17	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#342	12	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#416	9	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#275	16	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#237	20	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#299	13	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#421	7	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#493	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#440	6	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#477	5	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#487	4	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#424	5	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#379	5	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 1954 and 2025, ranked in 65 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #72, first reached in 2002.

It held a top-100 place in 12 years, 12 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 119 births, registered in Norway in 2006.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 57 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.

Esila · #2757, 11y
Esin · #3142, 12y
Eskild · #225, 54y
Eslem · #2163, 12y

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.

Philomena · #72, 61y
Lotte · #73, 64y
Nicolai · #76, 61y
Edmond · #77, 60y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Ann-Kristin · #73, 48y
Grahame · #71, 12y
Leonard · #73, 70y
Lotte · #73, 64y

Eskil was ranked #72 in Norway · Boys in 2002. 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.

Eskil 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 Eskil without appearing here.

Eskil moved ahead of

Egil Compare
In 1989 they stood at #246 and #243 in Norway · Boys; by 1990 that had become #245 and #488.
Anthony Compare
In 1988 they stood at #366 and #359 in Norway · Boys; by 1989 that had become #246 and #400.
Edward Compare
In 1975 they stood at #372 and #317 in Norway · Boys; by 1976 that had become #296 and #446.
George Compare
In 1979 they stood at #339 and #304 in Norway · Boys; by 1980 that had become #215 and #359.

Moved ahead of Eskil

Tobias Compare
In 1983 they stood at #232 and #325 in Norway · Boys; by 1984 that had become #382 and #224.
Isak Compare
In 1994 they stood at #148 and #151 in Norway · Boys; by 1995 that had become #196 and #116.
Sebastian Compare
In 1970 they stood at #275 and #436 in Norway · Boys; by 1971 that had become #416 and #347.
Luca Compare
In 2020 they stood at #153 and #183 in Norway · Boys; by 2021 that had become #153 and #110.

Moved the opposite way to Eskil

Anders Compare
Between 1954 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eskil went from #379 to #152 while Anders went from #65 to #293.
Anthony Compare
Between 1954 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eskil went from #379 to #152 while Anthony went from #318 to #451.
Arild Compare
Between 1954 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eskil went from #379 to #152 while Arild went from #25 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1954 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eskil went from #379 to #152 while Arne went from #7 to #222.

Moved the same way as Eskil

Adam Compare
Between 1954 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eskil went from #379 to #152 and Adam from #258 to #29.
Aksel Compare
Between 1954 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eskil went from #379 to #152 and Aksel from #189 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1954 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eskil went from #379 to #152 and Alfred from #206 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1954 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eskil went from #379 to #152 and Arthur from #182 to #83.

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 1954 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #72 in Norway in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Eskil

Eskil at a glance

What stands out in Eskil's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Eskil across 2 official records

Eskil by decade in Norway · Boys

Eskil appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Eskil at a glance

What stands out in Eskil's record

Eskil across 2 official records

Eskil by decade in Norway · Boys

Eskil appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Eskil

Eskil and the names beside it

Eskil moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Eskil

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