Aodha

femaleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
13times a registrar ranked it
8years from first to last
#158highest recorded position
1grouping it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in Northern Ireland · 2019–2024

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Northern Ireland · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2019	#263
2020	#166
2021	#158
2023	#178
2024	#179

VerifiedSource: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names.Confidence: high.

See all Northern Ireland names · Source: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names

What the data shows

RisingNorthern Ireland · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in every year from 2018 to 2025.

In 2024: #179 among girls in Northern Ireland, #243 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2018–2025 · NISRA. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2018
First recorded at #734 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 2018 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded2019–2024
Highest recorded position: #158 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2021 (recorded 2019–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #544 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Aodha appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 8 years beginning in 2018, and has registered 92 births with the name.

Aodha 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.

Aodha'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	#734 (2018)	#221 (2021)	#544 (2025)	8 of 8	92 (2018–2025)	21 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#263 (2019)	#158 (2021)	#179 (2024)	5 of 6	51 (2019–2024)	14 (2021)

Aodha appears in

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

Names recorded by exactly 2 registrars

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2018 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #158 in Northern Ireland in 2021.

Aodha'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	Northern Ireland	female	#179	10	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#178	10	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#158	14	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#166	11	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#263	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#243	17	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#296	13	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#284	15	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#221	21	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#315	13	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified

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.

Aodha was ranked #158 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2021. 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.

Aodha 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 Aodha without appearing here.

Aodha moved ahead of

Beau Compare
In 2019 they stood at #734 and #734 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2020 that had become #315 and #834.
Christine Compare
In 2021 they stood at #871 and #502 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #284 and #747.
Deborah Compare
In 2019 they stood at #871 and #551 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2020 that had become #315 and #700.
Jenna Compare
In 2019 they stood at #871 and #395 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2020 that had become #315 and #628.

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 2018 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #158 in Northern Ireland in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Aodha

Aodha at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aodha across 2 official records

Aodha appears in

Popularity data

Names published alongside Aodha

Aodha and the names beside it

Aodha moved ahead of

Aodha at a glance

Aodha across 2 official records

Aodha appears in

Names published alongside Aodha

Aodha and the names beside it

Aodha moved ahead of