Christel

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Christel: Recorded since 1945, it reached #170 in 1983, and it was last ranked in 2018.

2registrars recorded it
56times a registrar ranked it
74years from first to last
#170highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2018

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2002	#4137
2003	#4373
2005	#3382
2007	#4294
2008	#5545
2009	#5556
2013	#5742
2018	#5666

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 47 of the 73 years from 1945 to 2017.

In 2013: #566 among girls in Norway, #5742 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2018 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #339 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2017
Highest recorded position: #170 among girls in Norway, in 1983 (recorded 1945–2017).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2018
Most recently recorded at #5666 among girls in England and Wales, in 2018.
England and Wales · Girls

Christel appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 47 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 580 births with the name.

Christel 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.

Christel'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	#339 (1945)	#170 (1983)	#484 (2017)	47 of 73	580 (1945–2017)	33 (1983)
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#3382 (2005)	#5666 (2018)	9 of 21	30 (1998–2018)	5 (2005)

Christel 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 Christel in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	5	1 of 10	5
1950s	9	2 of 10	5
1960s	102	9 of 10	11
1970sbusiest	182	10 of 10	18
1980s	180	10 of 10	18
1990s	67	7 of 10	10
2000s	22	5 of 10	4
2010s	13	3 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade, averaging 18 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Christel 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 2018. Highest recorded position: #170 in Norway in 1983.

Christel'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
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#484	5	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#550	4	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#566	4	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#587	4	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#591	4	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#515	5	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#578	4	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#535	5	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#548	5	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#421	8	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#380	10	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#332	13	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#499	7	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#455	8	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#315	16	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#248	22	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#368	12	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#597	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#287	16	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#347	13	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#303	15	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#170	33	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#229	22	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#206	25	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#265	17	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#244	19	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#173	31	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#317	13	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#316	13	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#285	15	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#303	14	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#185	28	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#217	22	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#273	15	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#305	12	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#268	15	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#306	12	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#235	17	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#390	7	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#330	10	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#219	18	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#283	12	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#443	5	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#391	6	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#416	5	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#417	4	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#339	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.

Where Christel is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Christel, between 1945 and 2018, in 54 of those 74 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1945–2017	47	#170 in 1983
England and Wales	1998–2018	9	#3382 in 2005

Its high point came 22 years earlier in Norway (1983) than in England and Wales (2005).

No registrar recorded it for 7 years after 1945; it appears again in 1953.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2018, ranked in 54 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #170, first reached in 1983.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 33 births, registered in Norway in 1983.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 53 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.

Christa · #518, 25y
Christabel · #629, 30y
Christelle · #2407, 17y
Christen · #265, 22y

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.

Blathnaid · #168, 55y
Sheena · #173, 54y
Darina · #174, 56y
Eadaoin · #165, 52y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Elly · #170, 47y
Signy · #170, 35y
Ann-Karin · #171, 39y
Birte · #171, 56y

Christel was ranked #170 in Norway · Girls in 1983. 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.

Martine#166
Barbara#167
Gro#168
Rebecca#169
Johanne#171
Emma#172
Mary#173
Sunniva#174

Christel 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Christel without appearing here.

Christel moved ahead of

Margaret
In 1970 they stood at #305 and #269 in Norway · Girls; by 1971 that had become #273 and #413.
Wendy
In 1960 they stood at #417 and #385 in Norway · Girls; by 1961 that had become #391 and #511.
Gerd
In 1991 they stood at #455 and #402 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #499 and #593.
Janet
In 1968 they stood at #306 and #284 in Norway · Girls; by 1969 that had become #268 and #341.

Moved ahead of Christel

Hayden
In 2006 they stood at #3382 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #4294 and #1741.
Isabelle
In 1986 they stood at #287 and #393 in Norway · Girls; by 1987 that had become #597 and #270.
Zara
In 2005 they stood at #515 and #554 in Norway · Girls; by 2006 that had become #591 and #295.
Matilda
In 2005 they stood at #535 and #560 in Norway · Girls; by 2006 that had become #591 and #319.

Moved the opposite way to Christel

Ada
Between 1945 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Christel went from #339 to #484 while Ada went from #229 to #24.
Alma
Between 1945 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Christel went from #339 to #484 while Alma went from #293 to #12.
Anna
Between 1945 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Christel went from #339 to #484 while Anna went from #38 to #9.
Elise
Between 1945 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Christel went from #339 to #484 while Elise went from #223 to #42.

Moved the same way as Christel

Anita
Between 1945 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Christel went from #339 to #484 and Anita from #162 to #419.
Anne
Between 1945 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Christel went from #339 to #484 and Anne from #1 to #115.
Annie
Between 1945 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Christel went from #339 to #484 and Annie from #180 to #301.
Åse
Between 1945 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Christel went from #339 to #484 and Åse from #25 to #204.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2018. Highest recorded position: #170 in Norway in 1983. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Christel

Christel at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Christel across 2 official records

Christel by decade in Norway · Girls

Christel appears in

Popularity data

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Christel at a glance

Christel across 2 official records

Christel by decade in Norway · Girls

Christel appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Christel

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Christel moved ahead of

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