An

maleStatistical record

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

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

An: Recorded since 2001, it reached #1,986 in 2019, and it stood at #2,263 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#1986highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#3998
2002	#4137
2003	#3594
2005	#4798
2006	#4157
2007	#2627
2008	#3005
2009	#3031
2010	#3533
2011	#2893
2012	#3285
2013	#2649
2014	#2464
2015	#2070
2016	#3609
2017	#2341
2018	#4684
2019	#3151
2020	#3447
2021	#3961
2022	#3970
2023	#4709
2024	#2771

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 23 of the 24 years from 2001 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2001–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2001
First recorded at #3998 among girls in England and Wales in 2001 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2009–2024
Highest recorded position: #1986 among boys in England and Wales, in 2019 (recorded 2009–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2771 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

An appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 2001, and has registered 149 births with the name.

An 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.

An'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	#3998 (2001)	#2070 (2015)	#2771 (2024)	23 of 24	149 (2001–2024)	13 (2015)
England and Wales · Boys	#4527 (2009)	#1986 (2019)	#2263 (2024)	10 of 16	48 (2009–2024)	11 (2019)

An 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 An in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	39	8 of 10	5
2010sbusiest	81	10 of 10	8
2020s	29	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 8 births a year.

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

An 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 2001 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1986 in England and Wales in 2019.

An'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	#2771	9	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2263	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1986	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2070	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2464	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2893	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	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 2001 and 2024, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,986, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

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.

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 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.

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Kidus · #1984, 18y
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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Leonardas · #1986, 12y
Nimrod · #1986, 14y
Tommy-Ray · #1986, 14y
Aliyaan · #1984, 18y

An 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 An without appearing here.

An moved ahead of

Evan Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #5891.
Geraldine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #5891.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #5891.
Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #5891.

Moved ahead of An

Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2341 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #1436.
Noah Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2341 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #2499.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #1939.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2649 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2464 and #1628.

Moved the opposite way to An

Hayden Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, An went from #4798 to #2771 while Hayden went from #3970 to #5891.
Aaron Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, An went from #4527 to #2263 while Aaron went from #54 to #154.
Alan Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, An went from #4527 to #2263 while Alan went from #193 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, An went from #4527 to #2263 while Alex went from #50 to #171.

Moved the same way as An

Aksel Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, An went from #4527 to #2263 and Aksel from #2837 to #1132.
Albie Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, An went from #4527 to #2263 and Albie from #291 to #19.
Alfred Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, An went from #4527 to #2263 and Alfred from #146 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, An went from #4527 to #2263 and Archie from #20 to #10.

What's not yet available

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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 2001 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1986 in England and Wales in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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