Elly

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Elly: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 26 years, its highest recorded position is #170, and it stood at #432 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
78times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#170highest recorded position
20groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Elly's record

Absent from every published list for 26 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#802
1997	#983
1998	#683
1999	#653
2000	#712
2001	#765
2002	#508
2003	#619
2004	#736
2005	#824
2006	#1201
2007	#1234
2008	#1584
2009	#1596
2010	#1653
2011	#2432
2012	#1809
2013	#1864
2014	#1367
2015	#2328
2016	#2120
2017	#2341
2018	#2901
2019	#3151
2020	#1773
2021	#2201
2022	#3533
2023	#5687
2024	#2574

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 37 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #392 among girls in Norway, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2574 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #170 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #170 among girls in Norway, in 1945 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #432 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Elly appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 37 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 336 births with the name.

Elly across 3 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.

Elly'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	#170 (1945)	#170 (1945)	#432 (2025)	37 of 81	336 (1945–2025)	26 (1945)
England and Wales · Girls	#802 (1996)	#508 (2002)	#2574 (2024)	29 of 29	620 (1996–2024)	59 (2002)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#536 (2000)	#443 (2002)	#898 (2024)	12 of 25	50 (2000–2024)	9 (2008)

Elly 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 Elly in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	84	5 of 10	17
1950s	75	9 of 10	8
1960s	4	1 of 10	4
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2000s	21	4 of 10	5
2010s	82	10 of 10	8
2020s	62	6 of 10	10

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 17 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Elly 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 2025. Highest recorded position: #170 in Norway in 1945.

Elly'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	#2574	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1773	16	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	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	#2328	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1367	23	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1864	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1809	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2432	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1653	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1596	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1584	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1234	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1201	22	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#824	34	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#736	38	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#619	47	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#508	59	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#765	32	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#712	33	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#653	37	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#683	35	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#983	21	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#802	28	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#432	6	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#392	7	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#293	13	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#276	14	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#276	13	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#355	9	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#351	10	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#353	11	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#374	10	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#454	7	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#367	11	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#352	12	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#569	4	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#522	5	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#467	7	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#555	5	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#483	7	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#504	6	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#569	4	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#589	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#625	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#629	4	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#512	4	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#352	7	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#419	5	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#397	5	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#349	7	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#233	14	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#326	8	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#323	8	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#288	9	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#251	12	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#238	14	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#226	15	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#224	16	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#250	13	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#170	26	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#469	9	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	5	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	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 2025, ranked in 47 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #170, first reached in 1945.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 59 births, registered in England and Wales in 2002.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 26 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 55 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.

Ellora · #1393, 29y
Ellouise · #758, 28y
Elma · #224, 41y
Elna · #164, 35y

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.

Carrie · #170, 49y
Riona · #169, 49y
Arkadiusz · #168, 47y
Dorota · #172, 51y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Christel · #170, 54y
Signy · #170, 35y
Ann-Karin · #171, 39y
Birte · #171, 56y

Elly was ranked #170 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.

Elly 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 Elly without appearing here.

Elly moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #5891.
Donna Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #5891.
Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #5891.
Brittany Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3533 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #4843.

Moved ahead of Elly

Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2341 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2901 and #1436.
Ingrid Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1367 and #1628 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2328 and #1007.
Linnea Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2201 and #2711 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3533 and #2325.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1367 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2328 and #1240.

Moved the opposite way to Elly

Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elly went from #170 to #432 while Elise went from #223 to #63.
Ella Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elly went from #170 to #432 while Ella went from #137 to #4.
Ellinor Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elly went from #170 to #432 while Ellinor went from #102 to #7.
Emma Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elly went from #170 to #432 while Emma went from #342 to #1.

Moved the same way as Elly

Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elly went from #170 to #432 and Åse from #25 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elly went from #170 to #432 and Aud from #13 to #427.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elly went from #170 to #432 and Bjørg from #6 to #369.
Eileen Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elly went from #170 to #432 and Eileen from #324 to #501.

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 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #170 in Norway in 1945. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elly

Elly at a glance

What stands out in Elly's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elly across 3 official records

Elly by decade in Norway · Girls

Elly 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 Elly

Elly and the names beside it

Elly moved ahead of

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Elly at a glance

What stands out in Elly's record

Elly across 3 official records

Elly by decade in Norway · Girls

Elly 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 Elly

Elly and the names beside it

Elly moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Elly

Moved the opposite way to Elly

Moved the same way as Elly