An

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical 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, its highest recorded position is #1,892, reached in 2025.

1registrar recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#1892highest recorded position

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2025

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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
2025	#1892

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 24 of the 25 years from 2001 to 2025.

Official data for England and Wales, 2001–2025 · 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 recorded2001–2025
Highest recorded position: #1892 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025 (recorded 2001–2025).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #1892 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
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 24 years beginning in 2001, and has registered 164 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)	#1892 (2025)	#1892 (2025)	24 of 25	164 (2001–2025)	15 (2025)
England and Wales · Boys	#4527 (2009)	#1986 (2019)	#2952 (2025)	11 of 17	55 (2009–2025)	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	44	6 of 10	7

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 →

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2001 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #1892 in England and Wales in 2025.

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
2025	England and Wales	female	#1892	15	High	Verified
2025	England and Wales	male	#2952	7	High	Verified
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 2025, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,892, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 15 births, registered in England and Wales in 2025.

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

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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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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Ceylin · #1892, 12y
Naylah · #1892, 16y
Raunak · #1892, 13y
Zairah · #1892, 17y

What's not yet available

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2001 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #1892 in England and Wales in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

An

An at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

An across 2 official records

An by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

An at a glance

An across 2 official records

An by decade in England and Wales · Girls

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s