Afnaan

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Afnaan: Recorded since 2008, its highest recorded position is #3,397, and it stood at #3,695 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
16times a registrar ranked it
17years from first to last
#3397highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#3397
2012	#5876
2013	#3536
2015	#4103
2016	#4763
2017	#5765
2018	#5666
2019	#5591
2020	#3899
2022	#4645
2023	#4709
2024	#3695

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 England and Wales in 12 of the 17 years from 2008 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2008–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2008
First recorded at #3397 among girls in England and Wales in 2008 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2008–2024
Highest recorded position: #3397 among girls in England and Wales, in 2008 (recorded 2008–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Afnaan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 12 years beginning in 2008, and has registered 52 births with the name.

Afnaan 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.

Afnaan'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 · Girls	#3397 (2008)	#3397 (2008)	#3695 (2024)	12 of 17	52 (2008–2024)	6 (2008)
England and Wales · Boys	#4747 (2015)	#3848 (2020)	#4107 (2023)	4 of 9	14 (2015–2023)	4 (2020)

Afnaan 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 Afnaan in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	6	1 of 10	6
2010sbusiest	27	7 of 10	4
2020s	19	4 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 4 births a year.

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

Afnaan 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 2008 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #3397 in England and Wales in 2008.

Afnaan'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	#3695	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	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 2008 and 2024, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #3,397, first reached in 2008.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 6 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 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 →
10 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years10 to 19 unbroken years →
3separate stretches the record falls into3 separate stretches →
3 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#3,695position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
6births registered in its largest year, 2008Under 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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Afonso · #660, 21y

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.

Pessy · #3397, 10y
Tirzah · #3397, 14y
Vivianne · #3397, 10y
Mazey · #3409, 10y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Pessy · #3397, 10y
Vivianne · #3397, 10y
Mazey · #3409, 10y
Robynn · #3409, 10y

Afnaan 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 Afnaan without appearing here.

Afnaan moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Hunter Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Jeanette Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5666 and #5666 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Afnaan

Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4103 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2706.
Malin Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3536 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4763 and #2120.
Finley Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4763 and #5785 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #3583.
Freddie Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3397 and #5545 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #4063.

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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2008 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #3397 in England and Wales in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Afnaan

Afnaan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Afnaan across 2 official records

Afnaan by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Afnaan appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Afnaan and the names beside it

Afnaan moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Afnaan

Afnaan at a glance

Afnaan across 2 official records

Afnaan by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Afnaan appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Afnaan and the names beside it

Afnaan moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Afnaan