Fodhla

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Fodhla: Recorded since 2005, its highest recorded position is #178, and it stood at #288 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
14times a registrar ranked it
20years from first to last
#178highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
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

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 7 of the 12 years from 2005 to 2016.

In 2024: #288 among girls in Northern Ireland, #5891 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2005–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2005
First recorded at #689 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 2005 — 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: #178 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2019–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #288 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2024.
Northern Ireland · Girls

Fodhla appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 7 years beginning in 2005, and has registered 28 births with the name.

Fodhla 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.

Fodhla'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	#689 (2005)	#515 (2016)	#515 (2016)	7 of 12	28 (2005–2016)	7 (2016)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#424 (2019)	#178 (2023)	#288 (2024)	6 of 6	37 (2019–2024)	10 (2023)

Fodhla 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 2005 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #178 in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Fodhla'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
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#288	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#178	10	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#218	8	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#237	7	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#333	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	7	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#705	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#635	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	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 2005 and 2024, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #178, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 10 births, registered in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 19 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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
6 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
4separate stretches the record falls into4 separate stretches →
4 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#288position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
19 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 11 to 20 years →
10births registered in its largest year, 2023Under 25 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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Ford · #535, 24y
Forest · #535, 17y

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.

Claragh · #171, 16y
Blain · #186, 13y
Courteney · #186, 15y
Ruadh · #187, 12y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Ea · #179, 24y
Nikodem · #179, 22y
Varg · #177, 19y
Aizah · #182, 23y

Fodhla was ranked #178 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2023. 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.

Fodhla 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 Fodhla without appearing here.

Fodhla moved ahead of

Anita Compare
In 2015 they stood at #896 and #751 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #515 and #868.
Christine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #896 and #896 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #515 and #868.
Marianne Compare
In 2015 they stood at #896 and #660 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #515 and #868.
Natasha Compare
In 2015 they stood at #896 and #462 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #515 and #868.

Moved ahead of Fodhla

Linda Compare
In 2006 they stood at #635 and #764 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2007 that had become #705 and #286.

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 3 regions, from 2005 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #178 in Northern Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Fodhla

Fodhla at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Fodhla across 2 official records

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Fodhla at a glance

Fodhla across 2 official records

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Fodhla

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