Vilja

femaleStatistical record

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

No researched meaning or origin yet — what that means.

Pronunciation

Community-contributed pronunciation recording

A Swedish pronunciation, as its file is labelled. Licence: CC0. Source

VerifiedSource: Wikidata.Confidence: medium.

Vilja: Recorded since 1987, with a gap of 10 years, it reached #65 in 2017, and it stood at #128 in 2025.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
39years from first to last
#65highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Vilja's record

Absent from every published list for 10 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Norway · Girls

Rising

among girls in Norway · 1987–2025

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.

View as table

Norway · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1987	#685
1998	#633
1999	#385
2000	#409
2001	#364
2002	#432
2003	#231
2004	#277
2005	#183
2006	#183
2007	#226
2008	#197
2009	#166
2010	#111
2011	#129
2012	#127
2013	#110
2014	#106
2015	#118
2016	#102
2017	#65
2018	#69
2019	#80
2020	#92
2021	#90
2022	#111
2023	#114
2024	#125
2025	#128

VerifiedSource: Statistics Norway (SSB) — Born Persons by First Name.Confidence: high.

See all Norway names · Source: Statistics Norway (SSB) — Born Persons by First Name

What the data shows

RisingNorway · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 29 of the 39 years from 1987 to 2025.

Official data for Norway, 1987–2025 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

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

Popularity journey

First recorded1987
First recorded at #685 among girls in Norway in 1987 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1987–2025
Highest recorded position: #65 among girls in Norway, in 2017 (recorded 1987–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #128 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Vilja 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 Vilja in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1980s	4	1 of 10	4
1990s	14	2 of 10	7
2000s	232	10 of 10	23
2010sbusiest	661	10 of 10	66
2020s	307	6 of 10	51

Across Norway · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 66 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births rose by 33, from 63 to 96.

See the names Norway has recorded the most births with →

Vilja 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

Recorded in official data for Norway from 1987 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #65 in Norway in 2017.

Vilja'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
2025	Norway	female	#128	45	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#125	42	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#114	49	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#111	47	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#90	59	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#92	65	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#80	75	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#69	88	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#65	96	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#102	63	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#118	53	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#106	57	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#110	60	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#127	54	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#129	52	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#111	63	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#166	40	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#197	31	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#226	26	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#183	35	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#183	33	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#277	17	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#231	22	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#432	8	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#364	11	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#409	9	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#385	10	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#633	4	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#685	4	High	Verified

Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1987 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #65, first reached in 2017.

It held a top-100 place in 5 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 96 births, registered in Norway in 2017.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 10 years.

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.

Vilde · #8, 52y
Vilhelm · #283, 27y
Viljar · #91, 37y
Vilje · #109, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Lykke · #64, 27y
Tomine · #62, 31y
Linea · #69, 30y
Frøya · #56, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

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

Alyce · #65, 23y
Rhiannon · #65, 39y
Brenton · #66, 12y
Krystal · #63, 41y

Vilja was ranked #65 in Norway · Girls in 2017. 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.

Mathea#61
Ellie#62
Mina#63
Sanna#64
Andrea#66
Solveig#67
Isabella#68
Mari#69

Vilja 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 Vilja without appearing here.

Vilja moved ahead of

Judith
In 2004 they stood at #432 and #414 in Norway · Girls; by 2005 that had become #183 and #604.
Rita
In 2002 they stood at #432 and #427 in Norway · Girls; by 2003 that had become #231 and #566.
Mette
In 2002 they stood at #432 and #423 in Norway · Girls; by 2003 that had become #231 and #558.
May
In 2002 they stood at #432 and #302 in Norway · Girls; by 2003 that had become #231 and #557.

Moved ahead of Vilja

Ellie
In 2014 they stood at #106 and #160 in Norway · Girls; by 2015 that had become #118 and #85.
Hennie
In 2018 they stood at #69 and #72 in Norway · Girls; by 2019 that had become #80 and #71.
Lily
In 2022 they stood at #111 and #142 in Norway · Girls; by 2023 that had become #114 and #106.
Aria
In 2019 they stood at #80 and #94 in Norway · Girls; by 2020 that had become #92 and #89.

Moved the opposite way to Vilja

Anita
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Vilja went from #685 to #128 while Anita went from #59 to #459.
Anne
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Vilja went from #685 to #128 while Anne went from #8 to #159.
Bjørg
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Vilja went from #685 to #128 while Bjørg went from #239 to #369.
Camilla
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Vilja went from #685 to #128 while Camilla went from #4 to #279.

Moved the same way as Vilja

Ada
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Vilja went from #685 to #128 and Ada from #444 to #18.
Alma
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Vilja went from #685 to #128 and Alma from #514 to #8.
Amalie
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Vilja went from #685 to #128 and Amalie from #383 to #25.
Amanda
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Vilja went from #685 to #128 and Amanda from #292 to #52.

What is known about Vilja

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 1 official registrar, 1987–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Reported; A recorded pronunciation is available.

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.

Recorded in official data for Norway from 1987 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #65 in Norway in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Vilja

Pronunciation

Vilja at a glance

What stands out in Vilja's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Vilja by decade in Norway · Girls

Vilja appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

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Vilja and the names beside it

Vilja moved ahead of

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What is known about Vilja

Vilja at a glance

What stands out in Vilja's record

Vilja by decade in Norway · Girls

Vilja appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Vilja

Vilja and the names beside it

Vilja moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Vilja

Moved the opposite way to Vilja

Moved the same way as Vilja