Ane

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Ane: Recorded since 1949, it reached #40 in 2006, and it stood at #152 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
77times a registrar ranked it
77years from first to last
#40highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Ane's record

Held a top-100 place for 33 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2005–2019

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#3970
2008	#5545
2013	#5742
2019	#4001

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 73 of the 77 years from 1949 to 2025.

In 2019: #142 among girls in Norway, #4001 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1949–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1949
First recorded at #331 among girls in Norway in 1949 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1949–2025
Highest recorded position: #40 among girls in Norway, in 2006 (recorded 1949–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #152 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Ane appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 73 years beginning in 1949, and has registered 4,540 births with the name.

Ane 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.

Ane'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	#331 (1949)	#40 (2006)	#152 (2025)	73 of 77	4,540 (1949–2025)	153 (2006)
England and Wales · Girls	#3970 (2005)	#3970 (2005)	#4001 (2019)	4 of 15	15 (2005–2019)	5 (2019)

Ane 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 Ane in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	6	1 of 10	6
1950s	33	6 of 10	6
1960s	164	10 of 10	16
1970s	421	10 of 10	42
1980s	864	10 of 10	86
1990sbusiest	1,132	10 of 10	113
2000s	1,081	10 of 10	108
2010s	633	10 of 10	63
2020s	206	6 of 10	34

Across Norway · Girls, the 1990s were its busiest decade, averaging 113 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2005 and 2006, when recorded births rose by 32, from 121 to 153.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ane 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 1949 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #40 in Norway in 2006.

Ane'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
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#152	33	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#143	35	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#137	38	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#136	36	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#160	28	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#137	36	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#142	38	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#124	46	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#135	43	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#131	45	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#121	51	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#80	79	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#83	77	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#100	67	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#83	80	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#62	107	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#68	98	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#57	109	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#53	127	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#40	153	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#55	121	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#68	104	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#79	78	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#70	88	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#77	93	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#67	110	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#62	113	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#58	121	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#83	97	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#83	106	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#65	121	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#66	125	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#65	127	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#72	115	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#78	101	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#79	106	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#73	106	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#72	103	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#73	100	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#81	87	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#72	101	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#88	82	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#91	80	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#95	77	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#103	68	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#113	60	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#112	62	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#116	55	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#151	38	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#165	32	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#123	52	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#155	41	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#138	45	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#179	29	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#144	40	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#178	27	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#156	33	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#160	29	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#230	18	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#241	15	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#226	17	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#249	15	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#295	11	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#330	8	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#300	10	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#339	8	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#404	5	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#401	5	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#363	6	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#386	5	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#313	8	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#382	4	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#331	6	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 1949 and 2025, ranked in 73 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #40, first reached in 2006.

It held a top-100 place in 33 years, 33 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 153 births, registered in Norway in 2006.

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

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, 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.

Andrzej · #103, 63y
Andy · #236, 33y
Anees · #840, 25y
Aneesa · #397, 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.

Roar · #36, 69y
Beate · #47, 70y
Henriette · #31, 71y
Mikkel · #28, 70y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Jørn · #40, 64y
Lillian · #40, 81y
Oline · #40, 40y
Agnes · #39, 81y

Ane was ranked #40 in Norway · Girls in 2006. 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.

Ane 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 Ane without appearing here.

Ane moved ahead of

Paula Compare
In 1960 they stood at #339 and #271 in Norway · Girls; by 1961 that had become #300 and #411.
Reidun Compare
In 1977 they stood at #151 and #141 in Norway · Girls; by 1978 that had become #116 and #217.
Alice Compare
In 1967 they stood at #230 and #208 in Norway · Girls; by 1968 that had become #160 and #254.
Eileen Compare
In 1956 they stood at #386 and #348 in Norway · Girls; by 1957 that had become #363 and #448.

Moved ahead of Ane

Hennie Compare
In 2015 they stood at #121 and #129 in Norway · Girls; by 2016 that had become #131 and #74.
Josefine Compare
In 2014 they stood at #80 and #82 in Norway · Girls; by 2015 that had become #121 and #65.
Louise Compare
In 2014 they stood at #80 and #94 in Norway · Girls; by 2015 that had become #121 and #76.
Hedvig Compare
In 2016 they stood at #131 and #134 in Norway · Girls; by 2017 that had become #135 and #95.

Moved the opposite way to Ane

Anita Compare
Between 1949 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ane went from #331 to #152 while Anita went from #108 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1949 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ane went from #331 to #152 while Anne went from #1 to #159.
Annie Compare
Between 1949 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ane went from #331 to #152 while Annie went from #151 to #214.
Åse Compare
Between 1949 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ane went from #331 to #152 while Åse went from #24 to #93.

Moved the same way as Ane

Ada Compare
Between 1949 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ane went from #331 to #152 and Ada from #215 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1949 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ane went from #331 to #152 and Alma from #377 to #8.
Anna Compare
Between 1949 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ane went from #331 to #152 and Anna from #49 to #23.
Charlotte Compare
Between 1949 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Ane went from #331 to #152 and Charlotte from #381 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 1949 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #40 in Norway in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Ane

Ane at a glance

What stands out in Ane's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ane across 2 official records

Ane by decade in Norway · Girls

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Ane at a glance

What stands out in Ane's record

Ane across 2 official records

Ane by decade in Norway · Girls

Ane appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

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Ane and the names beside it

Ane moved ahead of

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