Irah

maleStatistical record

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

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

Irah: Recorded since 1997, with a gap of 12 years, it reached #2,104 in 2019, and it stood at #2,671 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
17times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#2104highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Irah's record

Absent from every published list for 12 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2015–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2015	#5730
2022	#5669
2023	#4709
2024	#4843

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 13 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2859 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #2104 among boys in England and Wales, in 2019 (recorded 1997–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Irah appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 13 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 70 births with the name.

Irah 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.

Irah'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
England and Wales · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#2104 (2019)	#2671 (2024)	13 of 28	70 (1997–2024)	10 (2019)
England and Wales · Girls	#5730 (2015)	#4709 (2023)	#4843 (2024)	4 of 10	14 (2015–2024)	4 (2023)

Irah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Irah in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	6	2 of 10	3
2010s	29	6 of 10	5
2020sbusiest	35	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

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

Irah 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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2104 in England and Wales in 2019.

Irah'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	#4843	4	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2529	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3334	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2104	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	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 1997 and 2024, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,104, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 10 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 12 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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
8 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
4separate stretches the record falls into4 separate stretches →
12 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period10 to 19 years missing →
#2,671position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
10births registered in its largest year, 2019Under 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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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.

Agamveer · #2104, 10y
Areez · #2104, 16y
Oswin · #2104, 17y
Soffia · #2104, 16y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Oswin · #2104, 17y
Inas · #2105, 19y
Lorelle · #2105, 19y
Najah · #2105, 20y

Irah 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 Irah without appearing here.

Irah moved ahead of

Kelly Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3959 and #3011 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2104 and #4702.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2671 and #5119.
Jade Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2671 and #5119.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2730 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #4991.

Moved the opposite way to Irah

Braxton Compare
Between 2011 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Irah went from #4647 to #2671 while Braxton went from #1398 to #2088.

Moved the same way as Irah

Aksel Compare
Between 2011 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Irah went from #4647 to #2671 and Aksel from #2892 to #1132.
Arlo Compare
Between 2011 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Irah went from #4647 to #2671 and Arlo from #281 to #15.
Leif Compare
Between 2011 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Irah went from #4647 to #2671 and Leif from #3300 to #814.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2104 in England and Wales in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Irah

Irah at a glance

What stands out in Irah's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Irah across 2 official records

Irah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Irah 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

Irah and the names beside it

Irah moved ahead of

Moved the opposite way to Irah

Moved the same way as Irah

Irah at a glance

What stands out in Irah's record

Irah across 2 official records

Irah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Irah appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Irah and the names beside it

Irah moved ahead of

Moved the opposite way to Irah

Moved the same way as Irah