Fadumo

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Fadumo: Recorded since 1952, it reached #248 in 1970, and it was last ranked in 2017.

2registrars recorded it
61times a registrar ranked it
66years from first to last
#248highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2017

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1999	#3225
2000	#3247
2001	#3262
2003	#3594
2004	#4598
2006	#5061
2007	#3667
2008	#3397
2009	#2759
2010	#2843
2011	#4049
2012	#5876
2013	#4739
2014	#4684
2017	#4763

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 45 of the 53 years from 1952 to 2004.

In 2004: #520 among girls in Norway, #4598 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1952–2017 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #406 among girls in Norway in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1952–2004
Highest recorded position: #248 among girls in Norway, in 1970 (recorded 1952–2004).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2017
Most recently recorded at #4763 among girls in England and Wales, in 2017.
England and Wales · Girls

Fadumo appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 45 years beginning in 1952, and has registered 369 births with the name.

Fadumo 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.

Fadumo'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	#406 (1952)	#248 (1970)	#520 (2004)	45 of 53	369 (1952–2004)	19 (1987)
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#2759 (2009)	#4763 (2017)	16 of 22	73 (1996–2017)	8 (2009)

Fadumo 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 Fadumo in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	14	3 of 10	5
1960s	64	9 of 10	7
1970s	82	10 of 10	8
1980sbusiest	112	10 of 10	11
1990s	81	10 of 10	8
2000s	16	3 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names Norway has recorded the most births with →

Fadumo appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1952 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #248 in Norway in 1970.

Fadumo'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
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#520	5	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#613	4	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#463	7	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#508	6	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#544	5	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#325	12	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#348	11	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#529	6	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#406	9	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#490	7	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#470	8	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#598	5	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#368	12	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#393	11	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#420	10	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#269	19	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#288	16	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#478	8	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#344	13	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#440	8	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#341	12	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#623	4	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#367	11	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#414	9	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#428	8	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#421	8	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#602	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#399	9	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#353	11	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#445	7	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#591	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#518	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#248	17	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#340	10	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#493	5	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#384	8	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#426	6	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#313	11	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#427	6	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#417	6	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#477	4	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#350	8	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#382	6	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#424	4	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#406	4	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.

Where Fadumo is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Fadumo, between 1952 and 2017, in 57 of those 66 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1952–2004	45	#248 in 1970
England and Wales	1996–2017	16	#2759 in 2009

Its high point came 39 years earlier in Norway (1970) than in England and Wales (2009).

No registrar recorded it for 3 years after 1955; it appears again in 1959.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1952 and 2017, ranked in 57 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #248, first reached in 1970.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 19 births, registered in Norway in 1987.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 44 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.

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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.

Abdi · #247, 60y
Roseanne · #250, 54y
Rowena · #245, 54y
Irena · #256, 59y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

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

Abdi · #247, 60y
Abdullahi · #245, 67y
Esben · #251, 47y
Mahmoud · #251, 69y

Fadumo was ranked #248 in Norway · Girls in 1970. 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.

Renata#244
Sidsel#245
Veronika#246
Claudia#247
Gjertrud#249
Ingjerd#250
Jorid#251
Katja#252

Fadumo 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 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Fadumo without appearing here.

Fadumo moved ahead of

Martine
In 2009 they stood at #3667 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2843 and #5707.
Gail
In 2007 they stood at #3667 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #3397 and #5545.
Finlay
In 2008 they stood at #3397 and #3005 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2759 and #4564.
Helene
In 2013 they stood at #5876 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4684 and #5691.

Moved ahead of Fadumo

Malin
In 2011 they stood at #4049 and #4764 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #5876 and #3681.
Hayden
In 2006 they stood at #3247 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #3667 and #1741.
Blake
In 2010 they stood at #2759 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #4049 and #2893.
Luca
In 2010 they stood at #2843 and #3156 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #4049 and #2893.

Moved the opposite way to Fadumo

Karoline
Between 1960 and 2004 in Norway · Girls, Fadumo went from #350 to #520 while Karoline went from #442 to #37.
Sarah
Between 1960 and 2004 in Norway · Girls, Fadumo went from #350 to #520 while Sarah went from #490 to #52.
Sofie
Between 1960 and 2004 in Norway · Girls, Fadumo went from #350 to #520 while Sofie went from #414 to #20.
Sophie
Between 1960 and 2004 in Norway · Girls, Fadumo went from #350 to #520 while Sophie went from #492 to #206.

Moved the same way as Fadumo

Bente
Between 1952 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Fadumo went from #406 to #613 and Bente from #12 to #443.
Grete
Between 1952 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Fadumo went from #406 to #613 and Grete from #24 to #504.
Gunn
Between 1952 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Fadumo went from #406 to #613 and Gunn from #30 to #410.
Sissel
Between 1952 and 2002 in Norway · Girls, Fadumo went from #406 to #613 and Sissel from #22 to #639.

What is known about Fadumo

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1952–2017.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 1952 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #248 in Norway in 1970. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Fadumo

Fadumo at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Fadumo across 2 official records

Fadumo by decade in Norway · Girls

Fadumo appears in

Popularity data

Where Fadumo is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Fadumo

Fadumo and the names beside it

Fadumo moved ahead of

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What is known about Fadumo

Fadumo at a glance

Fadumo across 2 official records

Fadumo by decade in Norway · Girls

Fadumo 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 Fadumo

Fadumo and the names beside it

Fadumo moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Fadumo

Moved the opposite way to Fadumo

Moved the same way as Fadumo