Afnan

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Afnan: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #727, and it stood at #736 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#727highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
1999	#2189
2000	#2746
2001	#3998
2002	#2301
2003	#3594
2004	#3725
2005	#2970
2006	#2320
2007	#1854
2008	#1815
2009	#2326
2010	#1901
2011	#2150
2012	#2969
2013	#3536
2014	#2203
2015	#2195
2016	#1749
2017	#2341
2018	#1977
2019	#1782
2020	#2042
2021	#1628
2022	#1685
2023	#1959
2024	#1541

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 girls in England and Wales in 27 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1541 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3174 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2017–2024
Highest recorded position: #727 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2017–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1541 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Afnan appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 290 births with the name.

Afnan 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.

Afnan'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	#3174 (1997)	#1541 (2024)	#1541 (2024)	27 of 28	290 (1997–2024)	20 (2024)
England and Wales · Boys	#3036 (2000)	#2088 (2024)	#2088 (2024)	20 of 25	110 (2000–2024)	11 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#873 (2017)	#727 (2023)	#736 (2024)	3 of 8	11 (2017–2024)	4 (2023)

Afnan 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 Afnan in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	11	2 of 10	6
2000s	75	10 of 10	8
2010s	122	10 of 10	12
2020sbusiest	82	5 of 10	16

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 16 births a year.

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

Afnan 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 2 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #727 in Republic of Ireland in 2023.

Afnan'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	#1541	20	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2088	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1959	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1685	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2042	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1782	16	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1749	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2319	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2203	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1901	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2326	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1854	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2320	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2301	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #727, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 20 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

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

A second registrar first ranked it in 2017, and 20 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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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Aditi · #727, 30y
Arsalan · #727, 29y
Bleu · #727, 23y
Colbie · #727, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aditi · #727, 30y
Arsalan · #727, 29y
Ayoub · #727, 29y
Bleu · #727, 23y

Afnan was ranked #727 in Republic of 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.

Afnan 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 Afnan without appearing here.

Afnan moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1782 and #5591.
Kai Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2326 and #2326 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1901 and #5707.
George Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3725 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1815 and #5545.
Tove Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3998 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1815 and #5545.

Moved ahead of Afnan

Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2693 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3411 and #2104.
Blake Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2150 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2969 and #1893.
Frida Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2301 and #3409 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #3594 and #2727.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1782 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2042 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Afnan

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Afnan went from #3174 to #1541 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Afnan went from #3174 to #1541 while Aimee went from #61 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Afnan went from #3174 to #1541 while Aisling went from #496 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Afnan went from #3174 to #1541 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Afnan

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Afnan went from #3174 to #1541 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Afnan went from #3174 to #1541 and Alma from #2411 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Afnan went from #3174 to #1541 and Alyssa from #506 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Afnan went from #3174 to #1541 and Amalie from #3824 to #1128.

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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #727 in Republic of Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Afnan

Afnan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Afnan across 3 official records

Afnan by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Afnan 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 Afnan

Afnan and the names beside it

Afnan moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Afnan

Moved the opposite way to Afnan

Moved the same way as Afnan

Afnan at a glance

Afnan across 3 official records

Afnan by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Afnan 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 Afnan

Afnan and the names beside it

Afnan moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Afnan

Moved the opposite way to Afnan

Moved the same way as Afnan