Elen

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Elen: Recorded since 1945, it reached #287 in 1948, and it stood at #4,192 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
81times a registrar ranked it
80years from first to last
#287highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#783
1997	#721
1998	#628
1999	#736
2000	#625
2001	#732
2002	#735
2003	#818
2004	#912
2005	#790
2006	#783
2007	#899
2008	#1176
2009	#1287
2010	#1332
2011	#937
2012	#1893
2013	#2313
2014	#1702
2015	#2070
2016	#2120
2017	#2341
2018	#1977
2019	#2643
2020	#3899
2021	#2073
2022	#3533
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 51 of the 79 years from 1945 to 2023.

In 2023: #502 among girls in Norway, #2689 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #300 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2023
Highest recorded position: #287 among girls in Norway, in 1948 (recorded 1945–2023).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Elen appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 51 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 336 births with the name.

Elen 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.

Elen'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	#300 (1945)	#287 (1948)	#502 (2023)	51 of 79	336 (1945–2023)	10 (1995)
England and Wales · Girls	#783 (1996)	#625 (2000)	#4192 (2024)	29 of 29	663 (1996–2024)	41 (2000)

Elen 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 Elen in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	38	5 of 10	8
1950s	31	5 of 10	6
1960s	32	5 of 10	6
1970s	56	9 of 10	6
1980s	48	7 of 10	7
1990s	62	9 of 10	7
2000s	51	8 of 10	6
2010s	14	2 of 10	7
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Elen 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 3 regions, from 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #287 in Norway in 1948.

Elen'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	#3533	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2120	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2070	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1702	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2313	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1893	15	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#937	38	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1332	23	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1287	23	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1176	25	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#899	34	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#783	39	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#790	36	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#912	29	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#818	32	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#735	35	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#732	34	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#625	41	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#736	31	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#628	40	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#721	33	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#783	29	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#502	4	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#493	6	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#448	8	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#480	7	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#515	6	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#536	5	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#398	9	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#537	5	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#549	5	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#486	6	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#416	8	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#502	6	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#539	5	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#424	8	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#438	8	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#381	10	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#622	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#466	8	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#643	4	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#441	9	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#477	8	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#561	6	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#600	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#503	7	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#461	8	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#490	7	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#477	7	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#513	6	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#461	7	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#542	5	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#496	6	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#398	9	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#481	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#509	6	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#442	7	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#582	4	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#367	9	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#498	5	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#367	8	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#509	4	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#394	6	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#449	4	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#322	8	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#363	6	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#301	9	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#389	4	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#314	7	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#287	9	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#288	9	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#369	5	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#300	8	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2024, ranked in 65 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #287, first reached in 1948.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 41 births, registered in England and Wales in 2000.

Its record falls into 12 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 65 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.

Eleftheria · #2689, 13y
Elektra · #1296, 22y
Elena · #56, 77y
Eleni · #627, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Andres · #288, 62y
Margarita · #291, 62y
Pedro · #283, 60y
Jorge · #278, 70y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Tarald · #287, 39y
Andres · #288, 62y
Leni · #288, 45y
Torkild · #288, 34y

Elen was ranked #287 in Norway · Girls in 1948. 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.

Elen 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 Elen without appearing here.

Elen moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2073 and #5581.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2643 and #5591.
Donna Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2073 and #4634.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Elen

Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #1743.
Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2073 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3533 and #1452.
Mona Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #2042.
Wendy Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2073 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3533 and #1767.

Moved the opposite way to Elen

Alice Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Elen went from #300 to #502 while Alice went from #292 to #153.
Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Elen went from #300 to #502 while Anna went from #38 to #20.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Elen went from #300 to #502 while Elise went from #223 to #61.
Ella Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Elen went from #300 to #502 while Ella went from #137 to #3.

Moved the same way as Elen

Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Elen went from #300 to #502 and Åse from #25 to #123.
Berit Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Elen went from #300 to #502 and Berit from #7 to #494.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Elen went from #300 to #502 and Bjørg from #6 to #495.
Else Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Elen went from #300 to #502 and Else from #15 to #178.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 3 regions, from 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #287 in Norway in 1948. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elen

Elen at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elen across 2 official records

Elen by decade in Norway · Girls

Elen appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Elen and the names beside it

Elen moved ahead of

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Elen at a glance

Elen across 2 official records

Elen by decade in Norway · Girls

Elen 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 Elen

Elen and the names beside it

Elen moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Elen

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