Erling

maleStatistical record

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

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

Erling: Recorded every year since 1945, its highest recorded position is #43, and it stood at #127 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
83times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#43highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Erling's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 2022–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2022	#4789
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 every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #157 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 #43 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: #43 among boys in Norway, in 1945 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #127 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Erling appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 5,254 births with the name.

Erling 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.

Erling'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	#43 (1945)	#43 (1945)	#127 (2025)	81 of 81	5,254 (1945–2025)	195 (1945)
England and Wales · Boys	#4789 (2022)	#4789 (2022)	#5119 (2024)	2 of 3	6 (2022–2024)	3 (2022)

Erling 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 Erling in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	889	5 of 10	178
1950s	1,302	10 of 10	130
1960s	914	10 of 10	91
1970s	494	10 of 10	49
1980s	374	10 of 10	37
1990s	413	10 of 10	41
2000s	357	10 of 10	36
2010s	284	10 of 10	28
2020s	227	6 of 10	38

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 178 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Erling 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: #43 in Norway in 1945.

Erling'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
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#127	46	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#157	33	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#122	48	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#142	38	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#183	25	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#128	37	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#204	24	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#187	29	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#221	22	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#191	28	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#176	34	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#163	36	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#188	30	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#182	32	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#229	22	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#193	27	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#167	37	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#179	31	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#178	32	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#168	36	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#156	41	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#189	28	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#173	35	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#161	37	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#184	32	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#146	48	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#156	45	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#133	53	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#160	39	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#156	43	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#181	34	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#210	29	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#205	30	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#160	42	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#161	44	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#145	54	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#212	30	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#197	30	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#186	33	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#179	38	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#184	36	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#199	31	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#143	52	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#182	37	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#158	43	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#158	44	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#146	49	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#157	45	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#174	38	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#167	42	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#173	40	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#144	53	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#161	46	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#144	56	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#129	63	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#128	62	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#105	78	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#101	75	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#95	86	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#97	79	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#100	81	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#84	96	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#80	98	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#74	104	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#76	102	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#68	115	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#79	97	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#77	104	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#66	118	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#72	121	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#57	146	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#57	144	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#51	156	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#61	131	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#56	151	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#60	134	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#51	158	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#50	166	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#47	179	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#45	191	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#43	195	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 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #43, first reached in 1945.

It held a top-100 place in 23 years, 23 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 195 births, registered in Norway in 1945.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2022, and 77 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.

Erle · #64, 44y
Erlend · #32, 75y
Erna · #74, 43y
Ernest · #167, 48y

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.

Signe · #41, 81y
Henning · #46, 81y
Mads · #46, 80y
Johanne · #47, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Kirsti · #43, 63y
Synnøve · #43, 81y
Torbjørn · #43, 81y
Torhild · #43, 51y

Erling was ranked #43 in Norway · Boys 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.

Erling 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 Erling without appearing here.

Erling moved ahead of

Tore Compare
In 2001 they stood at #184 and #178 in Norway · Boys; by 2002 that had become #161 and #273.
Helge Compare
In 1994 they stood at #210 and #192 in Norway · Boys; by 1995 that had become #181 and #271.
Gunnar Compare
In 1989 they stood at #212 and #186 in Norway · Boys; by 1990 that had become #145 and #210.
Per Compare
In 2019 they stood at #204 and #162 in Norway · Boys; by 2020 that had become #128 and #184.

Moved ahead of Erling

Noah Compare
In 2000 they stood at #146 and #177 in Norway · Boys; by 2001 that had become #184 and #77.
Luca Compare
In 2020 they stood at #128 and #183 in Norway · Boys; by 2021 that had become #183 and #110.
Johannes Compare
In 1983 they stood at #143 and #182 in Norway · Boys; by 1984 that had become #199 and #131.
Oskar Compare
In 1992 they stood at #160 and #174 in Norway · Boys; by 1993 that had become #205 and #144.

Moved the opposite way to Erling

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Erling went from #43 to #127 while Aksel went from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Erling went from #43 to #127 while Alfred went from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Erling went from #43 to #127 while Arthur went from #153 to #83.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Erling went from #43 to #127 while Daniel went from #280 to #66.

Moved the same way as Erling

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Erling went from #43 to #127 and Anders from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Erling went from #43 to #127 and Arild from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Erling went from #43 to #127 and Arne from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Erling went from #43 to #127 and Bjørn from #3 to #56.

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 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #43 in Norway in 1945. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Erling

Erling at a glance

What stands out in Erling's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Erling across 2 official records

Erling by decade in Norway · Boys

Erling appears in

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Erling at a glance

What stands out in Erling's record

Erling across 2 official records

Erling by decade in Norway · Boys

Erling 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 Erling

Erling and the names beside it

Erling moved ahead of

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