Ylva

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Ylva: Recorded since 1956, it reached #43 in 2017, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
65times a registrar ranked it
70years from first to last
#43highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2012–2022

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2012	#5876
2013	#5742
2015	#4103
2017	#5765
2019	#5591
2021	#3961
2022	#3970

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 58 of the 70 years from 1956 to 2025.

In 2022: #49 among girls in Norway, #3970 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1956–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1956
First recorded at #426 among girls in Norway in 1956 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1956–2025
Highest recorded position: #43 among girls in Norway, in 2017 (recorded 1956–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #46 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Ylva appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 58 years beginning in 1956, and has registered 2,528 births with the name.

Ylva 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.

Ylva'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	#426 (1956)	#43 (2017)	#46 (2025)	58 of 70	2,528 (1956–2025)	135 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#5876 (2012)	#3961 (2021)	#3970 (2022)	7 of 11	27 (2012–2022)	5 (2015)

Ylva 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 Ylva in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	5	1 of 10	5
1960s	10	2 of 10	5
1970s	82	10 of 10	8
1980s	71	9 of 10	8
1990s	261	10 of 10	26
2000s	491	10 of 10	49
2010s	895	10 of 10	90
2020sbusiest	713	6 of 10	119

Across Norway · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 119 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2015 and 2016, when recorded births rose by 32, from 87 to 119.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ylva 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 1956 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #43 in Norway in 2017.

Ylva'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
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#46	135	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#51	121	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#50	126	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#49	121	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#54	110	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#61	100	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#57	102	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#52	109	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#43	133	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#51	119	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#75	87	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#88	72	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#92	70	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#99	68	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#93	72	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#112	63	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#119	60	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#140	46	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#111	60	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#127	51	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#96	67	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#162	36	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#208	26	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#130	48	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#124	52	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#144	45	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#167	36	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#155	41	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#163	40	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#222	23	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#182	33	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#193	30	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#258	20	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#395	11	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#373	12	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#330	15	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#509	8	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#433	10	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#587	6	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#581	6	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#335	14	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#432	9	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#475	8	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#674	4	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#549	6	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#605	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#590	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#633	4	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#412	9	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#382	10	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#392	10	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#406	9	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#311	14	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#466	7	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#398	9	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#482	6	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#526	4	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#426	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 1956 and 2025, ranked in 58 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #43, first reached in 2017.

It held a top-100 place in 16 years, 15 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 135 births, registered in Norway in 2025.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, and 56 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.

Yitty · #1991, 25y
Yitzchok · #1158, 29y
Yngvar · #134, 40y
Yngve · #97, 66y

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.

Kirsti · #43, 63y
Colette · #47, 61y
Jesper · #53, 63y
Noreen · #60, 61y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

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

Desmond · #43, 68y
Glenda · #43, 41y
Lance · #43, 64y
Roslyn · #43, 62y

Ylva was ranked #43 in Norway · Girls in 2017. 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.

Ylva 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 Ylva without appearing here.

Ylva moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5591 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3970 and #5669.
Cooper Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5591 and #2643 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.
Kirsten Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5591 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5591 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Ylva

Emma Compare
In 1976 they stood at #412 and #422 in Norway · Girls; by 1977 that had become #633 and #240.
Vilde Compare
In 1985 they stood at #335 and #485 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #581 and #198.
Tuva Compare
In 1976 they stood at #412 and #445 in Norway · Girls; by 1977 that had become #633 and #339.
Tiril Compare
In 1985 they stood at #335 and #395 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #581 and #340.

Moved the opposite way to Ylva

Anita Compare
Between 1956 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ylva went from #426 to #46 while Anita went from #36 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1956 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ylva went from #426 to #46 while Anne went from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1956 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ylva went from #426 to #46 while Åse went from #38 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1956 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ylva went from #426 to #46 while Aud went from #14 to #427.

Moved the same way as Ylva

Ada Compare
Between 1956 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ylva went from #426 to #46 and Ada from #229 to #18.
Anna Compare
Between 1956 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ylva went from #426 to #46 and Anna from #72 to #23.
Astrid Compare
Between 1956 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ylva went from #426 to #46 and Astrid from #23 to #9.
Charlotte Compare
Between 1956 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ylva went from #426 to #46 and Charlotte from #432 to #162.

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 1956 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #43 in Norway in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Ylva

Ylva at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ylva across 2 official records

Ylva by decade in Norway · Girls

Ylva appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

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Ylva at a glance

Ylva across 2 official records

Ylva by decade in Norway · Girls

Ylva 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 Ylva

Ylva and the names beside it

Ylva moved ahead of

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