Annelise

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Annelise: Recorded since 1945, it reached #187 in 1959, and it stood at #3,015 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
63times a registrar ranked it
80years from first to last
#187highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
1998	#1697
1999	#2189
2000	#1831
2001	#2023
2002	#1317
2003	#1472
2004	#1383
2005	#1589
2006	#1983
2007	#1656
2008	#2292
2009	#1909
2010	#1993
2011	#2025
2012	#1720
2013	#1587
2014	#1562
2015	#1783
2016	#2966
2017	#2201
2018	#1887
2019	#2170
2020	#2300
2021	#2341
2022	#1948
2023	#4056
2024	#3015

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 35 of the 52 years from 1945 to 1996.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #242 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–1996
Highest recorded position: #187 among girls in Norway, in 1959 (recorded 1945–1996).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3015 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Annelise appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 35 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 268 births with the name.

Annelise 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.

Annelise'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	#242 (1945)	#187 (1959)	#558 (1996)	35 of 52	268 (1945–1996)	20 (1959)
England and Wales · Girls	#3824 (1997)	#1317 (2002)	#3015 (2024)	28 of 28	338 (1997–2024)	19 (2013)

Annelise 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 Annelise in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	51	5 of 10	10
1950s	89	10 of 10	9
1960s	67	8 of 10	8
1970s	14	2 of 10	7
1980s	28	6 of 10	5
1990s	19	4 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Annelise 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 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #187 in Norway in 1959.

Annelise'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	#3015	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1948	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2300	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2170	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1887	15	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2966	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1783	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1562	19	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1587	19	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1720	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2025	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1993	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1909	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1656	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1589	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1383	16	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1317	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1697	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#558	5	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#612	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#635	4	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#552	6	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#660	4	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#594	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#634	4	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#550	6	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#635	4	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#567	5	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#486	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#424	8	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#362	9	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#380	8	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#419	6	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#309	11	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#356	8	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#314	10	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#332	8	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#363	7	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#187	20	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#291	10	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#408	5	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#300	9	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#326	8	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#337	7	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#359	6	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#302	9	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#335	6	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#280	9	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#280	9	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#272	10	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#263	11	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#290	9	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#242	12	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 1945 and 2024, ranked in 63 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #187, first reached in 1959.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 20 births, registered in Norway in 1959.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 52 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.

Anneli · #225, 64y
Anneliese · #842, 29y
Annemarie · #389, 24y
Annette · #31, 72y

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.

Kristi · #185, 60y
Rosemarie · #191, 61y
Klaus · #175, 60y
Niels · #201, 68y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Ingolf · #187, 26y
Oddvin · #187, 27y
Ansgar · #188, 22y
Eldar · #188, 69y

Annelise was ranked #187 in Norway · Girls in 1959. 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.

Annelise 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 Annelise without appearing here.

Annelise moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #5891.
Carmel Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2201 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1887 and #4684.
Cian Compare
In 1997 they stood at #3824 and #2152 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #1697 and #3848.
Helene Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2023 and #2023 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1317 and #3409.

Moved ahead of Annelise

Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1948 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #1959.
Marilyn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1948 and #2673 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #2063.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2300 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #1286.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2170 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2300 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Annelise

Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Girls, Annelise went from #242 to #558 while Anna went from #38 to #7.
Cecilie Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Girls, Annelise went from #242 to #558 while Cecilie went from #359 to #41.
Christine Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Girls, Annelise went from #242 to #558 while Christine went from #253 to #74.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Girls, Annelise went from #242 to #558 while Elise went from #223 to #26.

Moved the same way as Annelise

Ann Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Girls, Annelise went from #242 to #558 and Ann from #82 to #116.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Girls, Annelise went from #242 to #558 and Anne from #1 to #25.
Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Girls, Annelise went from #242 to #558 and Annie from #180 to #367.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Girls, Annelise went from #242 to #558 and Åse from #25 to #228.

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 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #187 in Norway in 1959. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Annelise

Annelise at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Annelise across 2 official records

Annelise by decade in Norway · Girls

Annelise appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Annelise

Annelise and the names beside it

Annelise moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Annelise

Moved the opposite way to Annelise

Moved the same way as Annelise

Annelise at a glance

Annelise across 2 official records

Annelise by decade in Norway · Girls

Annelise appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Annelise

Annelise and the names beside it

Annelise moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Annelise

Moved the opposite way to Annelise

Moved the same way as Annelise