Keela

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Keela: Recorded since 1998, it reached #206 in 2008, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#206highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2002–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#2540
2003	#3594
2004	#2530
2005	#3382
2006	#2137
2007	#2895
2008	#3860
2009	#3422
2010	#2235
2011	#3185
2012	#5876
2013	#3160
2014	#4003
2015	#4103
2017	#4063
2018	#4684
2020	#5493
2024	#5891

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 Republic of Ireland in 26 of the 28 years from 1998 to 2025.

In 2020: #495 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #5493 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1998–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #319 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1998–2025
Highest recorded position: #206 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2008 (recorded 1998–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Keela appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 265 births with the name.

Keela across 3 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.

Keela'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#319 (1998)	#206 (2008)	#885 (2025)	26 of 28	265 (1998–2025)	27 (2008)
England and Wales · Girls	#2540 (2002)	#2137 (2006)	#5891 (2024)	18 of 23	103 (2002–2024)	11 (2010)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#331 (2003)	#226 (2005)	#361 (2018)	6 of 16	27 (2003–2018)	7 (2005)

Keela by decade in Republic of Ireland · 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 Keela in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	10	2 of 10	5
2000sbusiest	105	9 of 10	12
2010s	120	10 of 10	12
2020s	30	5 of 10	6

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Keela 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 3 regions, from 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #206 in Republic of Ireland in 2008.

Keela'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	#5891	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#361	4	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#277	6	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#351	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#226	7	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#331	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#495	7	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#464	8	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#495	7	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#395	10	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#319	14	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#365	11	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#476	8	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#402	11	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	14	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#357	13	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#354	14	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#359	13	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#395	12	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#299	16	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#206	27	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#251	19	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#431	8	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#277	13	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#304	11	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#528	3	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#319	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1998 and 2025, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #206, first reached in 2008.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 27 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 2008.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 5 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.

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Keeley · #121, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Jordyn · #206, 22y
Ellie-May · #205, 29y
Emily-Rose · #205, 29y
Kajus · #204, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Brenna · #206, 20y
Jordyn · #206, 22y
Nola · #206, 26y
Sydney · #206, 30y

Keela was ranked #206 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2008. 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.

Keela 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 Keela without appearing here.

Keela moved ahead of

Kristy Compare
In 2013 they stood at #5876 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4003 and #4684.
Cameron Compare
In 2004 they stood at #655 and #490 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2005 that had become #277 and #689.
Jordan Compare
In 2004 they stood at #655 and #294 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2005 that had become #277 and #689.
Martine Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3382 and #2084 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2137 and #2509.

Moved ahead of Keela

Cecilie Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3160 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #3117.
Tove Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4063 and #5765 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #2674.
Janice Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2540 and #3409 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #3594 and #1722.
Francis Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3160 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4063 and #2502.

Moved the opposite way to Keela

Alice Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Keela went from #319 to #885 while Alice went from #90 to #41.
Annie Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Keela went from #319 to #885 while Annie went from #159 to #33.
Cara Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Keela went from #319 to #885 while Cara went from #166 to #52.
Charlotte Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Keela went from #319 to #885 while Charlotte went from #127 to #43.

Moved the same way as Keela

Aoife Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Keela went from #319 to #885 and Aoife from #4 to #34.
Audrey Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Keela went from #319 to #885 and Audrey from #345 to #885.
Bernadette Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Keela went from #319 to #885 and Bernadette from #319 to #718.
Cassandra Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Keela went from #319 to #885 and Cassandra from #293 to #885.

What's not yet available

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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 3 regions, from 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #206 in Republic of Ireland in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Keela

Keela at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Keela across 3 official records

Keela by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Keela appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Keela

Keela and the names beside it

Keela moved ahead of

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Keela at a glance

Keela across 3 official records

Keela by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Keela 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 Keela

Keela and the names beside it

Keela moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Keela

Moved the opposite way to Keela

Moved the same way as Keela