Erna

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Erna: Recorded since 1945, it reached #74 in 1948, and it was last ranked in 2002.

2registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
58years from first to last
#74highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 1999

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900

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

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 42 of the 58 years from 1945 to 2002.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2002 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #78 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2002
Highest recorded position: #74 among girls in Norway, in 1948 (recorded 1945–2002).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2002
Most recently recorded at #612 among girls in Norway, in 2002.
Norway · Girls

Erna 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 Erna in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	360	5 of 10	72
1950s	473	10 of 10	47
1960s	174	10 of 10	17
1970s	55	8 of 10	7
1980s	31	5 of 10	6
1990s	13	3 of 10	4
2000s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 72 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Erna 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 2002. Highest recorded position: #74 in Norway in 1948.

Erna'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
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#612	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#633	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#648	4	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#598	5	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#603	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#549	6	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#439	8	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#433	8	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#621	4	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#382	10	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#545	5	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#601	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#501	6	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#393	9	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#365	10	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#477	6	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#530	5	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#304	12	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#272	15	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#321	10	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#310	11	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#205	20	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#229	17	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#285	12	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#175	22	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#167	24	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#138	31	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#146	29	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#133	33	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#101	52	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#110	48	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#116	43	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#108	50	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#120	43	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#100	52	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#94	60	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#88	63	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#96	61	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#74	83	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#82	73	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#89	67	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#78	76	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 2002, ranked in 43 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #74, first reached in 1948.

It held a top-100 place in 8 years, 8 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 83 births, registered in Norway in 1948.

Its record falls into 10 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1999, and 54 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.

Erlend · #32, 75y
Erling · #43, 81y
Ernest · #167, 48y
Ernie · #316, 27y

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.

Mariusz · #76, 48y
Ebba · #67, 43y
Ronja · #58, 42y
Sylvi · #94, 45y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Amund · #74, 81y
Arnt · #75, 67y
Åshild · #73, 79y
Dan · #75, 81y

Erna was ranked #74 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.

Erna 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 Erna without appearing here.

Erna moved ahead of

Unni Compare
In 1991 they stood at #598 and #542 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #648 and #686.
Sissel Compare
In 2001 they stood at #633 and #317 in Norway · Girls; by 2002 that had become #612 and #639.
Reidun Compare
In 2001 they stood at #633 and #359 in Norway · Girls; by 2002 that had become #612 and #637.

Moved ahead of Erna

Frida Compare
In 1979 they stood at #382 and #384 in Norway · Girls; by 1980 that had become #621 and #250.
Josefine Compare
In 1989 they stood at #603 and #613 in Norway · Girls; by 1990 that had become #598 and #250.
Sara Compare
In 1969 they stood at #304 and #347 in Norway · Girls; by 1970 that had become #530 and #213.
Lara Compare
In 2001 they stood at #598 and #612 in Norway · Girls; by 2002 that had become #612 and #300.

Moved the opposite way to Erna

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Erna went from #78 to #612 while Ada went from #229 to #120.
Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Erna went from #78 to #612 while Anna went from #38 to #13.
Cecilie Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Erna went from #78 to #612 while Cecilie went from #359 to #74.
Christine Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Erna went from #78 to #612 while Christine went from #253 to #97.

Moved the same way as Erna

Ann Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Erna went from #78 to #612 and Ann from #82 to #185.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Erna went from #78 to #612 and Anne from #1 to #47.
Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Erna went from #78 to #612 and Annie from #180 to #341.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Erna went from #78 to #612 and Åse from #25 to #264.

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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 2002. Highest recorded position: #74 in Norway in 1948. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Erna

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Erna by decade in Norway · Girls

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Erna at a glance

Erna by decade in Norway · Girls

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