Eldar

maleStatistical record

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

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

Eldar: Recorded since 1945, it reached #188 in 1952, and it stood at #278 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
75times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#188highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 2013–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2013	#4685
2018	#4749
2019	#3937
2021	#4789
2023	#3112
2024	#5119

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 69 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #337 among boys in Norway, #5119 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #327 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #188 among boys in Norway, in 1952 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #278 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Eldar appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 69 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 668 births with the name.

Eldar 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.

Eldar'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 · Boys	#327 (1945)	#188 (1952)	#278 (2025)	69 of 81	668 (1945–2025)	20 (1950)
England and Wales · Boys	#4685 (2013)	#3112 (2023)	#5119 (2024)	6 of 12	22 (2013–2024)	6 (2023)

Eldar by decade in Norway · Boys

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 Eldar in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	57	5 of 10	11
1950sbusiest	131	10 of 10	13
1960s	110	10 of 10	11
1970s	79	9 of 10	9
1980s	47	8 of 10	6
1990s	15	3 of 10	5
2000s	55	8 of 10	7
2010s	115	10 of 10	12
2020s	59	6 of 10	10

Across Norway · Boys, the 1950s were its busiest decade, averaging 13 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Eldar 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 2025. Highest recorded position: #188 in Norway in 1952.

Eldar'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	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#278	14	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#337	10	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#311	12	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#378	7	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#371	7	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#339	9	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#424	6	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#418	7	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#299	14	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#322	13	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#252	20	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#344	11	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#373	10	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#283	16	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#358	10	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#413	8	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#428	8	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#379	10	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#344	11	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#494	5	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#422	7	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#551	4	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#432	6	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#538	4	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#553	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#511	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#523	6	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#616	4	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#506	7	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#538	6	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#438	9	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#523	6	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#565	5	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#539	6	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#626	4	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#478	7	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#602	4	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#481	7	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#371	11	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#318	14	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#405	9	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#582	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#304	14	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#400	9	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#373	9	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#280	14	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#305	12	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#454	6	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#398	7	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#363	9	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#304	11	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#321	10	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#265	13	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#209	19	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#256	13	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#309	9	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#317	8	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#246	13	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#221	14	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#294	8	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#243	12	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#188	20	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#224	14	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#193	20	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#189	19	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#251	11	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#254	11	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#255	11	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#327	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 1945 and 2025, ranked in 69 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #188, first reached in 1952.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 20 births, registered in Norway in 1950.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 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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Eldbjørg · #76, 39y
Elden · #2172, 17y

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.

Niels · #201, 68y
Mikal · #166, 69y
Asta · #217, 65y
Elisabet · #154, 68y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Ansgar · #188, 22y
Gunvald · #188, 14y
Tarjei · #188, 67y
Torleiv · #188, 31y

Eldar was ranked #188 in Norway · Boys in 1952. 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.

Eldar 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 Eldar without appearing here.

Eldar moved ahead of

Odd Compare
In 2022 they stood at #378 and #349 in Norway · Boys; by 2023 that had become #311 and #524.
Arild Compare
In 2022 they stood at #378 and #356 in Norway · Boys; by 2023 that had become #311 and #498.
Stein Compare
In 2006 they stood at #494 and #343 in Norway · Boys; by 2007 that had become #344 and #531.
Roger Compare
In 2006 they stood at #422 and #400 in Norway · Boys; by 2007 that had become #344 and #491.

Moved ahead of Eldar

Filip Compare
In 1979 they stood at #478 and #514 in Norway · Boys; by 1980 that had become #626 and #265.
Sebastian Compare
In 1971 they stood at #304 and #347 in Norway · Boys; by 1972 that had become #582 and #226.
Jonathan Compare
In 1979 they stood at #478 and #524 in Norway · Boys; by 1980 that had become #626 and #278.
Lukas Compare
In 1988 they stood at #506 and #548 in Norway · Boys; by 1989 that had become #616 and #335.

Moved the opposite way to Eldar

Jonathan Compare
Between 1949 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eldar went from #189 to #278 while Jonathan went from #371 to #93.
Benjamin Compare
Between 1950 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eldar went from #193 to #278 while Benjamin went from #345 to #48.
Edward Compare
Between 1950 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eldar went from #193 to #278 while Edward went from #324 to #189.
Adam Compare
Between 1952 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eldar went from #188 to #278 while Adam went from #380 to #29.

Moved the same way as Eldar

Joseph Compare
Between 1949 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eldar went from #189 to #278 and Joseph from #326 to #465.
Stephen Compare
Between 1946 and 2001 in Norway · Boys, Eldar went from #255 to #538 and Stephen from #352 to #522.
Aaron Compare
Between 1972 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eldar went from #582 to #278 and Aaron from #571 to #334.
Phillip Compare
Between 1972 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Eldar went from #582 to #278 and Phillip from #611 to #268.

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 2025. Highest recorded position: #188 in Norway in 1952. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Eldar

Eldar at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Eldar across 2 official records

Eldar by decade in Norway · Boys

Eldar 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 Eldar

Eldar and the names beside it

Eldar moved ahead of

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Eldar at a glance

Eldar across 2 official records

Eldar by decade in Norway · Boys

Eldar 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 Eldar

Eldar and the names beside it

Eldar moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Eldar

Moved the opposite way to Eldar

Moved the same way as Eldar