Arna

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Arna: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 29 years, its highest recorded position is #154, and it stood at #4,192 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
80years from first to last
#154highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Arna's record

Absent from every published list for 29 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2013–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2013	#4050
2014	#4684
2015	#2070
2016	#2966
2017	#2502
2018	#3178
2019	#1940
2020	#1352
2021	#2942
2022	#2488
2023	#2689
2024	#4192

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 22 of the 39 years from 1945 to 1983.

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

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #154 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–1983
Highest recorded position: #154 among girls in Norway, in 1945 (recorded 1945–1983).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Arna appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 22 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 263 births with the name.

Arna 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.

Arna'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	#154 (1945)	#154 (1945)	#626 (1983)	22 of 39	263 (1945–1983)	32 (1945)
England and Wales · Girls	#4050 (2013)	#1352 (2020)	#4192 (2024)	12 of 12	116 (2013–2024)	23 (2020)

Arna 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 Arna in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	92	5 of 10	18
1950s	130	10 of 10	13
1960s	37	6 of 10	6
1980s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 18 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Arna 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: #154 in Norway in 1945.

Arna'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	#4192	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1352	23	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1940	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2966	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2070	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#626	4	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#505	4	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#442	6	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#455	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#331	9	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#358	7	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#392	6	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#285	11	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#222	15	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#335	7	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#320	8	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#263	12	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#224	15	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#220	16	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#199	20	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#239	13	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#238	13	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#271	10	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#233	14	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#198	20	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#223	16	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#154	32	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 34 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #154, first reached in 1945.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 32 births, registered in Norway in 1945.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 29 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2013, and 68 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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Arn · #229, 20y
Arnas · #328, 21y
Arnav · #542, 26y

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.

Gertrude · #154, 29y
Mindaugas · #154, 31y
Keiran · #153, 30y
Hattie · #156, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Elisabet · #154, 68y
Norma · #154, 56y
Svend · #154, 52y
Alfhild · #153, 24y

Arna was ranked #154 in Norway · Girls in 1945. 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.

Arna 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 Arna without appearing here.

Arna moved ahead of

Tyler Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4684 and #3160 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2070 and #5730.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3178 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1940 and #5591.
Geraldine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4684 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2966 and #5785.
Kristin Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4684 and #4003 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2070 and #4736.

Moved ahead of Arna

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4050 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4684 and #1628.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #1743.
Jordan Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #2574.
Suzanne Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #3015.

Moved the opposite way to Arna

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 1983 in Norway · Girls, Arna went from #154 to #626 while Anita went from #162 to #29.
Ann Compare
Between 1945 and 1983 in Norway · Girls, Arna went from #154 to #626 while Ann went from #82 to #31.
Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 1983 in Norway · Girls, Arna went from #154 to #626 while Anna went from #38 to #14.
Cecilie Compare
Between 1945 and 1983 in Norway · Girls, Arna went from #154 to #626 while Cecilie went from #359 to #27.

Moved the same way as Arna

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 1983 in Norway · Girls, Arna went from #154 to #626 and Ada from #229 to #562.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 1983 in Norway · Girls, Arna went from #154 to #626 and Alma from #293 to #620.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 1983 in Norway · Girls, Arna went from #154 to #626 and Anne from #1 to #2.
Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 1983 in Norway · Girls, Arna went from #154 to #626 and Annie from #180 to #312.

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: #154 in Norway in 1945. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Arna

Arna at a glance

What stands out in Arna's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Arna across 2 official records

Arna by decade in Norway · Girls

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What stands out in Arna's record

Arna across 2 official records

Arna by decade in Norway · Girls

Arna appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Arna

Arna and the names beside it

Arna moved ahead of

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