Elvira

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Elvira: Recorded since 1953, it reached #81 in 2014, and it stood at #113 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
72times a registrar ranked it
73years from first to last
#81highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3142
1999	#2770
2000	#3912
2003	#3099
2004	#3725
2005	#3970
2007	#3667
2008	#3397
2009	#4564
2010	#5707
2011	#3549
2012	#4838
2014	#5691
2015	#2945
2016	#4763
2017	#3229
2018	#2901
2019	#3541
2020	#2843
2021	#3192
2022	#3970
2023	#5687

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 50 of the 73 years from 1953 to 2025.

In 2023: #102 among girls in Norway, #5687 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1953–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1953
First recorded at #396 among girls in Norway in 1953 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1953–2025
Highest recorded position: #81 among girls in Norway, in 2014 (recorded 1953–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #113 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Elvira appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 50 years beginning in 1953, and has registered 1,276 births with the name.

Elvira 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.

Elvira'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	#396 (1953)	#81 (2014)	#113 (2025)	50 of 73	1,276 (1953–2025)	79 (2014)
England and Wales · Girls	#3142 (1998)	#2770 (1999)	#5687 (2023)	22 of 26	112 (1998–2023)	8 (2015)

Elvira 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 Elvira in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	11	2 of 10	6
1960s	8	2 of 10	4
1970s	42	7 of 10	6
1980s	39	7 of 10	6
1990s	41	7 of 10	6
2000s	205	9 of 10	23
2010sbusiest	603	10 of 10	60
2020s	327	6 of 10	55

Across Norway · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 60 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2005 and 2006, when recorded births rose by 28, from 5 to 33.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Elvira 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 1953 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #81 in Norway in 2014.

Elvira'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
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3229	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2945	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#113	51	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#89	63	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#102	57	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#98	55	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#113	45	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#98	56	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#97	63	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#123	47	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#112	53	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#112	55	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#86	76	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#81	79	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#106	61	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#101	67	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#139	48	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#130	54	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#103	69	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#152	43	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#192	31	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#187	33	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#540	5	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#447	7	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#590	4	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#408	8	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#538	5	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#553	5	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#346	11	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#605	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#630	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#571	5	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#471	7	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#591	5	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#526	7	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#652	4	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#599	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#437	8	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#630	4	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#479	7	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#620	4	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#470	7	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#599	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#425	8	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#482	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#510	6	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#443	7	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#584	4	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#535	4	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#543	4	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#382	6	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#396	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 1953 and 2025, ranked in 50 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #81, first reached in 2014.

It held a top-100 place in 6 years, 2 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 79 births, registered in Norway in 2014.

Its record falls into 12 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 45 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.

Elvie · #910, 25y
Elvin · #282, 25y
Elvis · #321, 30y
Elwin · #2921, 11y

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.

Imelda · #80, 53y
Mali · #82, 49y
Rosaleen · #80, 51y
Mariusz · #76, 48y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Ralph · #81, 52y
Yasmin · #81, 55y
Beatrice · #80, 61y
Gayle · #80, 22y

Elvira was ranked #81 in Norway · Girls in 2014. 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.

Elvira 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 Elvira without appearing here.

Elvira moved ahead of

Finn Compare
In 2014 they stood at #5707 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2945 and #5730.
Rian Compare
In 2014 they stood at #5691 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2945 and #5730.
Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3549 and #3549 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2901 and #5666.
Kristy Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5691 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2901 and #5666.

Moved ahead of Elvira

Cecilie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3970 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2504.
Maren Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3970 and #4645 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2927.
Eabha Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3725 and #4598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #2326.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #1286.

Moved the opposite way to Elvira

Anita Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elvira went from #396 to #113 while Anita went from #70 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elvira went from #396 to #113 while Anne went from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elvira went from #396 to #113 while Åse went from #25 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elvira went from #396 to #113 while Aud went from #13 to #427.

Moved the same way as Elvira

Ada Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elvira went from #396 to #113 and Ada from #218 to #18.
Astrid Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elvira went from #396 to #113 and Astrid from #17 to #9.
Aurora Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elvira went from #396 to #113 and Aurora from #390 to #14.
Ella Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elvira went from #396 to #113 and Ella from #182 to #4.

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 1953 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #81 in Norway in 2014. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Elvira

Elvira at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elvira across 2 official records

Elvira by decade in Norway · Girls

Elvira appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

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Elvira and the names beside it

Elvira moved ahead of

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Elvira at a glance

Elvira across 2 official records

Elvira by decade in Norway · Girls

Elvira appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Elvira

Elvira and the names beside it

Elvira moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Elvira

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Moved the same way as Elvira