Sunniva

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Sunniva: Recorded since 1955, it reached #32 in 2003, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
68times a registrar ranked it
71years from first to last
#32highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Sunniva's record

Held a top-100 place for 31 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2005–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#4798
2022	#5669

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 66 of the 71 years from 1955 to 2025.

In 2022: #118 among girls in Norway, #5669 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1955–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1955
First recorded at #447 among girls in Norway in 1955 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1955–2025
Highest recorded position: #32 among girls in Norway, in 2003 (recorded 1955–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #90 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Sunniva appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 66 years beginning in 1955, and has registered 4,824 births with the name.

Sunniva 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.

Sunniva'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	#447 (1955)	#32 (2003)	#90 (2025)	66 of 71	4,824 (1955–2025)	205 (2000)
England and Wales · Girls	#4798 (2005)	#4798 (2005)	#5669 (2022)	2 of 18	6 (2005–2022)	3 (2005)

Sunniva 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 Sunniva in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	10	2 of 10	5
1960s	47	8 of 10	6
1970s	158	10 of 10	16
1980s	478	10 of 10	48
1990s	1,304	10 of 10	130
2000sbusiest	1,555	10 of 10	156
2010s	927	10 of 10	93
2020s	345	6 of 10	58

Across Norway · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 156 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1996 and 1997, when recorded births rose by 62, from 126 to 188.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Sunniva 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 1955 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #32 in Norway in 2003.

Sunniva'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
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#90	68	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#110	49	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#92	63	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#118	46	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#98	54	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#91	65	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#87	68	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#90	70	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#82	75	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#94	67	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#63	102	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#67	91	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#65	104	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#64	108	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#59	110	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#49	132	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#50	130	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#54	116	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#45	142	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#48	140	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#41	159	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#44	151	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#32	179	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#38	168	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#40	165	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#33	205	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#35	185	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#48	146	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#38	188	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#59	126	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#53	138	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#51	146	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#73	113	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#80	104	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#100	83	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#111	75	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#109	72	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#99	76	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#115	63	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#149	46	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#160	40	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#155	42	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#174	32	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#146	45	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#179	32	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#189	30	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#294	15	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#266	18	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#215	23	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#276	16	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#263	17	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#254	19	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#273	16	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#337	12	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#330	12	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#360	10	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#396	8	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#474	6	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#546	4	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#475	6	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#493	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#441	6	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#475	5	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#385	7	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#393	6	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#447	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.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1955 and 2025, ranked in 66 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #32, first reached in 2003.

It held a top-100 place in 34 years, 31 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 205 births, registered in Norway in 2000.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 50 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.

Sunni · #2418, 12y
Sunnie · #541, 20y
Sunny · #431, 30y
Sunshine · #2770, 13y

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.

Eline · #32, 65y
Henriette · #31, 71y
Mikkel · #28, 70y
Roar · #36, 69y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

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

Carolyn · #32, 68y
Clara · #32, 63y
Erlend · #32, 75y
Gavin · #32, 72y

Sunniva was ranked #32 in Norway · Girls in 2003. 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.

Sunniva 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 Sunniva without appearing here.

Sunniva moved ahead of

Deborah Compare
In 1971 they stood at #493 and #458 in Norway · Girls; by 1972 that had become #337 and #586.
Stephanie Compare
In 1968 they stood at #546 and #545 in Norway · Girls; by 1969 that had become #396 and #584.
Kim Compare
In 1979 they stood at #294 and #284 in Norway · Girls; by 1980 that had become #189 and #372.
Kate Compare
In 1979 they stood at #294 and #257 in Norway · Girls; by 1980 that had become #189 and #370.

Moved ahead of Sunniva

Vilde Compare
In 1990 they stood at #111 and #116 in Norway · Girls; by 1991 that had become #100 and #62.
Josefine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #63 and #65 in Norway · Girls; by 2016 that had become #94 and #61.
Leah Compare
In 2005 they stood at #41 and #53 in Norway · Girls; by 2006 that had become #48 and #22.
Emilie Compare
In 1988 they stood at #99 and #155 in Norway · Girls; by 1989 that had become #109 and #89.

Moved the opposite way to Sunniva

Anita Compare
Between 1955 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sunniva went from #447 to #90 while Anita went from #52 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1955 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sunniva went from #447 to #90 while Anne went from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1955 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sunniva went from #447 to #90 while Åse went from #20 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1955 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sunniva went from #447 to #90 while Aud went from #14 to #427.

Moved the same way as Sunniva

Ada Compare
Between 1955 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sunniva went from #447 to #90 and Ada from #238 to #18.
Anna Compare
Between 1955 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sunniva went from #447 to #90 and Anna from #70 to #23.
Astrid Compare
Between 1955 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sunniva went from #447 to #90 and Astrid from #17 to #9.
Charlotte Compare
Between 1955 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sunniva went from #447 to #90 and Charlotte from #420 to #162.

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 1955 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #32 in Norway in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Sunniva

Sunniva at a glance

What stands out in Sunniva's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sunniva across 2 official records

Sunniva by decade in Norway · Girls

Sunniva appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Sunniva

Sunniva and the names beside it

Sunniva moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Sunniva

Moved the opposite way to Sunniva

Moved the same way as Sunniva

Sunniva at a glance

What stands out in Sunniva's record

Sunniva across 2 official records

Sunniva by decade in Norway · Girls

Sunniva 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 Sunniva

Sunniva and the names beside it

Sunniva moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Sunniva

Moved the opposite way to Sunniva

Moved the same way as Sunniva