Svetlana

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Svetlana: Recorded since 1945, it reached #148 in 1968, and it stood at #4,843 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
53times a registrar ranked it
80years from first to last
#148highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#3998
2007	#5201
2008	#5545
2009	#4564
2010	#5707
2011	#4764
2018	#4684
2020	#3899
2023	#4056
2024	#4843

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 43 of the 50 years from 1945 to 1994.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #353 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–1994
Highest recorded position: #148 among girls in Norway, in 1968 (recorded 1945–1994).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Svetlana appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 43 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 701 births with the name.

Svetlana 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.

Svetlana'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	#353 (1945)	#148 (1968)	#493 (1994)	43 of 50	701 (1945–1994)	36 (1968)
England and Wales · Girls	#3998 (2001)	#3899 (2020)	#4843 (2024)	10 of 24	38 (2001–2024)	5 (2020)

Svetlana 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 Svetlana in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	15	3 of 10	5
1950s	46	6 of 10	8
1960sbusiest	238	10 of 10	24
1970s	241	10 of 10	24
1980s	137	10 of 10	14
1990s	24	4 of 10	6

Across Norway · Girls, the 1960s were its busiest decade, averaging 24 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Svetlana 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 2024. Highest recorded position: #148 in Norway in 1968.

Svetlana'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	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#493	7	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#625	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#671	4	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#499	8	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#589	6	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#465	9	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#412	11	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#577	6	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#271	18	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#216	24	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#284	16	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#247	21	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#365	11	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#306	15	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#270	17	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#276	17	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#193	26	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#237	20	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#180	29	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#255	19	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#190	27	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#238	20	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#167	34	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#159	32	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#189	24	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#148	36	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#188	25	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#193	22	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#157	30	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#197	21	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#170	26	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#191	20	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#282	12	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#180	22	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#297	11	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#305	10	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#308	9	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#421	5	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#356	7	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#438	4	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#396	4	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#353	6	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#353	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 1945 and 2024, ranked in 53 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #148, first reached in 1968.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 36 births, registered in Norway in 1968.

Its record falls into 10 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 56 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.

Svenn · #137, 53y
Sverre · #29, 81y
Swara · #2120, 15y
Sybil · #898, 21y

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.

Finola · #149, 49y
Mattis · #152, 52y
Clement · #156, 49y
Derrick · #137, 52y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Olea · #148, 26y
Lone · #149, 73y
Syver · #147, 39y
Guttorm · #150, 45y

Svetlana was ranked #148 in Norway · Girls in 1968. 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.

Svetlana 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 Svetlana without appearing here.

Svetlana moved ahead of

Donna Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3899 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #5687.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4684 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #5493.
Kristine Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4764 and #3549 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #5493.
Therese Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4764 and #3549 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Svetlana

Natalie Compare
In 1985 they stood at #271 and #312 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #577 and #185.
Vilde Compare
In 1985 they stood at #271 and #300 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #577 and #198.
Hedda Compare
In 1985 they stood at #271 and #355 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #577 and #202.
Hannah Compare
In 1985 they stood at #271 and #354 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #577 and #235.

Moved the opposite way to Svetlana

Andrea Compare
Between 1957 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Svetlana went from #308 to #493 while Andrea went from #403 to #20.
Cathrine Compare
Between 1957 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Svetlana went from #308 to #493 while Cathrine went from #337 to #61.
Victoria Compare
Between 1957 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Svetlana went from #308 to #493 while Victoria went from #435 to #48.
Caroline Compare
Between 1958 and 1994 in Norway · Girls, Svetlana went from #305 to #493 while Caroline went from #404 to #26.

Moved the same way as Svetlana

Aud Compare
Between 1945 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Svetlana went from #353 to #625 and Aud from #13 to #536.
Unni Compare
Between 1945 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Svetlana went from #353 to #625 and Unni from #31 to #686.
Janet Compare
Between 1948 and 1991 in Norway · Girls, Svetlana went from #353 to #671 and Janet from #365 to #652.
Teresa Compare
Between 1953 and 1992 in Norway · Girls, Svetlana went from #438 to #625 and Teresa from #293 to #424.

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 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #148 in Norway in 1968. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Svetlana

Svetlana at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Svetlana across 2 official records

Svetlana by decade in Norway · Girls

Svetlana appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Svetlana

Svetlana and the names beside it

Svetlana moved ahead of

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Svetlana at a glance

Svetlana across 2 official records

Svetlana by decade in Norway · Girls

Svetlana 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 Svetlana

Svetlana and the names beside it

Svetlana moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Svetlana

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Moved the same way as Svetlana