Elna

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Elna: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 40 years, its highest recorded position is #164, and it stood at #485 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
80years from first to last
#164highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Elna's record

Absent from every published list for 40 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2013–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2013	#5742
2015	#4736
2018	#5666
2019	#4686
2021	#5581
2022	#4645
2023	#3598
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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 28 of the 80 years from 1945 to 2024.

In 2024: #485 among girls in Norway, #4192 among girls in England and Wales.

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

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #177 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2024
Highest recorded position: #164 among girls in Norway, in 1946 (recorded 1945–2024).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Elna appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 312 births with the name.

Elna 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.

Elna'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	#177 (1945)	#164 (1946)	#485 (2024)	28 of 80	312 (1945–2024)	28 (1946)
England and Wales · Girls	#5742 (2013)	#3598 (2023)	#4192 (2024)	8 of 12	32 (2013–2024)	6 (2023)

Elna 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 Elna in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	112	5 of 10	22
1950s	131	10 of 10	13
1960s	48	8 of 10	6
1970s	9	2 of 10	5
2010s	8	2 of 10	4
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 22 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Elna 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: #164 in Norway in 1946.

Elna'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	#3598	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#485	4	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#528	4	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#574	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#517	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#583	4	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#499	5	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#469	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#493	5	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#460	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#501	4	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#366	7	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#305	10	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#367	7	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#244	14	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#353	7	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#316	8	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#220	15	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#256	13	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#226	15	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#302	9	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#324	8	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#188	21	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#190	21	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#188	21	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#194	19	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#194	21	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#164	28	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#177	23	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 35 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #164, first reached in 1946.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 28 births, registered in Norway in 1946.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 40 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.

Elly · #170, 47y
Elma · #224, 41y
Elnathan · #1421, 14y
Elnaz · #2705, 10y

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.

Ayah · #162, 30y
Carole · #162, 35y
Juni · #162, 34y
Arturas · #167, 35y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Anne-Grete · #164, 35y
Reidunn · #164, 28y
Annlaug · #165, 30y
Cecilia · #165, 71y

Elna was ranked #164 in Norway · Girls in 1946. 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.

Elna 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 Elna without appearing here.

Elna moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #5687.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #5891.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #5891.
Cheryl Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4686 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #4645 and #5669.

Moved ahead of Elna

Arlo Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4736 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #2340.
Finley Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4686 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #2942.
Frida Compare
In 2011 they stood at #517 and #572 in Norway · Girls; by 2012 that had become #574 and #17.
Selma Compare
In 2011 they stood at #501 and #529 in Norway · Girls; by 2012 that had become #574 and #31.

Moved the opposite way to Elna

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Elna went from #177 to #485 while Ada went from #229 to #16.
Alice Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Elna went from #177 to #485 while Alice went from #292 to #153.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Elna went from #177 to #485 while Alma went from #293 to #8.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Elna went from #177 to #485 while Elise went from #223 to #66.

Moved the same way as Elna

Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Elna went from #177 to #485 and Anne from #1 to #150.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Elna went from #177 to #485 and Åse from #25 to #128.
Astrid Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Elna went from #177 to #485 and Astrid from #12 to #17.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Elna went from #177 to #485 and Bjørg from #6 to #388.

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: #164 in Norway in 1946. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elna

Elna at a glance

What stands out in Elna's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elna across 2 official records

Elna by decade in Norway · Girls

Elna appears in

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Elna at a glance

What stands out in Elna's record

Elna across 2 official records

Elna by decade in Norway · Girls

Elna 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 Elna

Elna and the names beside it

Elna moved ahead of

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