Rasa

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Rasa: Recorded since 1964, with a gap of 19 years, it reached #226 in 1977, and it stood at #4,789 in 2021.

2registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
58years from first to last
#226highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Rasa's record

Absent from every published list for 19 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2012–2014

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2012	#5876
2014	#5691

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 27 of the 29 years from 1964 to 1992.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1964–2021 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #534 among girls in Norway in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1964–1992
Highest recorded position: #226 among girls in Norway, in 1977 (recorded 1964–1992).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2014
Most recently recorded at #5691 among girls in England and Wales, in 2014.
England and Wales · Girls

Rasa appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 310 births with the name.

Rasa 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.

Rasa'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	#534 (1964)	#226 (1977)	#619 (1992)	27 of 29	310 (1964–1992)	21 (1977)
England and Wales · Girls	#5876 (2012)	#5691 (2014)	#5691 (2014)	2 of 3	6 (2012–2014)	3 (2012)

Rasa 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 Rasa in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	37	4 of 10	9
1970s	117	10 of 10	12
1980sbusiest	135	10 of 10	14
1990s	21	3 of 10	7

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 14 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Rasa 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 1964 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #226 in Norway in 1977.

Rasa'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
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#619	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#568	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#421	10	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#295	17	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#324	15	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#467	9	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#377	12	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#247	20	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#349	13	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#457	8	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#435	9	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#361	11	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#240	21	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#428	9	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#274	17	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#226	21	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#525	6	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#410	9	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#327	13	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#354	11	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#373	10	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#327	12	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#391	9	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#265	16	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#380	9	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#383	8	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#534	4	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 1964 and 2021, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #226, first reached in 1977.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 21 births, registered in Norway in 1977.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 19 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, and 48 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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Rasheed · #409, 23y
Rashid · #1096, 29y

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.

Aman · #226, 29y
Magni · #226, 33y
Phyllis · #226, 34y
Bailie · #224, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Phyllis · #226, 34y
Cynthia · #225, 57y
Darach · #227, 32y
Ramona · #227, 57y

Rasa was ranked #226 in Norway · Girls in 1977. 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.

Rasa 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 Rasa without appearing here.

Rasa moved ahead of

Deborah Compare
In 1971 they stood at #534 and #458 in Norway · Girls; by 1972 that had become #373 and #586.
Jacqueline Compare
In 1987 they stood at #467 and #398 in Norway · Girls; by 1988 that had become #324 and #524.
Lucy Compare
In 1967 they stood at #534 and #523 in Norway · Girls; by 1968 that had become #380 and #509.
Unni Compare
In 1987 they stood at #467 and #343 in Norway · Girls; by 1988 that had become #324 and #411.

Moved ahead of Rasa

Amy Compare
In 1991 they stood at #421 and #549 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #619 and #304.
Selma Compare
In 1990 they stood at #421 and #423 in Norway · Girls; by 1991 that had become #568 and #347.
Maia Compare
In 1991 they stood at #568 and #659 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #619 and #413.
Natalie Compare
In 1985 they stood at #247 and #312 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #377 and #185.

Moved the opposite way to Rasa

Kine Compare
Between 1966 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Rasa went from #383 to #619 while Kine went from #480 to #63.
Maja Compare
Between 1966 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Rasa went from #383 to #619 while Maja went from #482 to #98.
Malin Compare
Between 1966 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Rasa went from #383 to #619 while Malin went from #530 to #11.
Marthe Compare
Between 1966 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Rasa went from #383 to #619 while Marthe went from #376 to #28.

Moved the same way as Rasa

Alma Compare
Between 1968 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Rasa went from #380 to #619 and Alma from #341 to #491.

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 2 regions, from 1964 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #226 in Norway in 1977. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Rasa

Rasa at a glance

What stands out in Rasa's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rasa across 2 official records

Rasa by decade in Norway · Girls

Rasa appears in

Popularity data

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Rasa at a glance

What stands out in Rasa's record

Rasa across 2 official records

Rasa by decade in Norway · Girls

Rasa appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Rasa

Rasa and the names beside it

Rasa moved ahead of

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