Saga

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Saga: Recorded since 1989, it reached #33 in 2021, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
37years from first to last
#33highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2011–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2011	#5785
2014	#5691
2015	#4736
2017	#5765
2018	#3518
2019	#3151
2020	#3899
2021	#3961
2022	#5669
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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 28 of the 37 years from 1989 to 2025.

In 2023: #47 among girls in Norway, #5687 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1989–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1989
First recorded at #640 among girls in Norway in 1989 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1989–2025
Highest recorded position: #33 among girls in Norway, in 2021 (recorded 1989–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #36 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Saga appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1989, and has registered 1,822 births with the name.

Saga 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.

Saga'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	#640 (1989)	#33 (2021)	#36 (2025)	28 of 37	1,822 (1989–2025)	158 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#5785 (2011)	#3151 (2019)	#5687 (2023)	10 of 13	42 (2011–2023)	7 (2019)

Saga 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 Saga in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1980s	5	1 of 10	5
1990s	11	2 of 10	6
2000s	125	9 of 10	14
2010s	843	10 of 10	84
2020sbusiest	838	6 of 10	140

Across Norway · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 140 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2015 and 2016, when recorded births rose by 39, from 81 to 120.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Saga 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 1989 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #33 in Norway in 2024.

Saga'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	#5669	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#36	152	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#33	158	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#47	128	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#54	117	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#33	151	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#43	132	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#39	150	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#39	150	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#50	115	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#49	120	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#82	81	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#86	74	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#118	53	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#147	48	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#264	21	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#195	31	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#248	22	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#299	17	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#224	26	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#292	16	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#296	16	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#410	9	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#513	6	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#428	8	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#552	5	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#529	6	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#578	5	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#640	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 1989 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #33, first reached in 2021.

It held a top-100 place in 12 years, 12 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 158 births, registered in Norway in 2024.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 22 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.

Safwaan · #1011, 29y
Safwan · #432, 30y
Sage · #298, 25y
Sahaj · #2613, 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.

Taylah · #30, 27y
Narelle · #37, 25y
Maree · #42, 23y
Hennie · #20, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Nikita · #34, 41y
Katelyn · #35, 36y
Luna · #30, 34y
Cody · #37, 39y

Saga was ranked #33 in Norway · Girls in 2021. 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.

Saga 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 Saga without appearing here.

Saga moved ahead of

Kristine Compare
In 2018 they stood at #5765 and #5765 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #4686.
Kerry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5765 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #4684.
Tyler Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3518 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #4001.
Pauline Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #3117 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #4634.

Moved ahead of Saga

Arlo Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #3541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #2843.

Moved the opposite way to Saga

Alexandra Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Saga went from #640 to #36 while Alexandra went from #121 to #212.
Andrea Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Saga went from #640 to #36 while Andrea went from #64 to #98.
Anita Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Saga went from #640 to #36 while Anita went from #82 to #459.
Anna Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Saga went from #640 to #36 while Anna went from #14 to #23.

Moved the same way as Saga

Ada Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Saga went from #640 to #36 and Ada from #286 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Saga went from #640 to #36 and Alma from #470 to #8.
Amalie Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Saga went from #640 to #36 and Amalie from #213 to #25.
Amanda Compare
Between 1989 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Saga went from #640 to #36 and Amanda from #165 to #52.

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 1989 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #33 in Norway in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Saga

Saga at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Saga across 2 official records

Saga by decade in Norway · Girls

Saga appears in

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Saga at a glance

Saga across 2 official records

Saga by decade in Norway · Girls

Saga appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Saga

Saga and the names beside it

Saga moved ahead of

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