Halimah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Halimah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #645 in 2000, and it stood at #1,097 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#645highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1755
1997	#1287
1998	#1122
1999	#794
2000	#645
2001	#696
2002	#702
2003	#699
2004	#840
2005	#866
2006	#928
2007	#1050
2008	#1093
2009	#1325
2010	#1013
2011	#1096
2012	#779
2013	#1075
2014	#1411
2015	#1033
2016	#1057
2017	#1457
2018	#1343
2019	#1063
2020	#792
2021	#1007
2022	#1416
2023	#1056
2024	#1097

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1755 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #645 among girls in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1097 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Halimah by decade in England and Wales · 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 Halimah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	69	4 of 10	17
2000s	324	10 of 10	32
2010s	314	10 of 10	31
2020sbusiest	165	5 of 10	33

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 33 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Halimah appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #645 in England and Wales in 2000.

Halimah'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	#1097	31	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1056	32	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1416	22	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1007	34	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#792	46	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1063	32	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1343	24	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1457	22	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1033	34	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1411	22	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1075	33	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#779	50	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1096	31	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1013	33	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1325	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1093	27	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1050	28	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#928	31	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#866	32	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#840	32	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#699	40	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#702	37	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#696	36	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#645	39	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#794	28	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1122	18	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1287	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1755	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #645, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 50 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#1,097position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
50births registered in its largest year, 201250 to 99 births →

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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Halima · #303, 56y
Halina · #1666, 23y
Halldis · #179, 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.

Avneet · #645, 29y
Nimra · #645, 29y
Uzma · #645, 28y
Can · #644, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Avneet · #645, 29y
Denny · #645, 29y
Nimra · #645, 29y
Uzma · #645, 28y

Halimah was ranked #645 in England and Wales · Girls in 2000. 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.

Halimah 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 Halimah without appearing here.

Halimah moved ahead of

Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1416 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1056 and #2689.
Janice Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1755 and #1364 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1287 and #2738.
Sinead Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1343 and #1314 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1063 and #2458.
Judith Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1325 and #1325 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1013 and #2104.

Moved ahead of Halimah

Maja Compare
In 2005 they stood at #866 and #951 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #928 and #456.
Alma Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1013 and #1040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1096 and #702.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1033 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1057 and #768.
Mila Compare
In 2005 they stood at #866 and #931 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #928 and #649.

Moved the opposite way to Halimah

Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Halimah went from #1755 to #1007 while Carol went from #802 to #3519.
Tyler Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Halimah went from #1755 to #1007 while Tyler went from #230 to #5581.
Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Halimah went from #696 to #1097 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Rian Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Girls, Halimah went from #1755 to #1033 while Rian went from #2350 to #5730.

Moved the same way as Halimah

Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Halimah went from #645 to #1097 and Hayden from #3912 to #5891.
Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Halimah went from #702 to #1097 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #645 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Halimah

Halimah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Halimah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Halimah appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Halimah and the names beside it

Halimah moved ahead of

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Halimah at a glance

Halimah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Halimah appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Halimah

Halimah and the names beside it

Halimah moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Halimah

Moved the opposite way to Halimah

Moved the same way as Halimah