Anam

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Anam: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #735 in 2002, and it stood at #1,449 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#735highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#869
1997	#789
1998	#817
1999	#900
2000	#1095
2001	#853
2002	#735
2003	#965
2004	#963
2005	#990
2006	#1502
2007	#2233
2008	#1302
2009	#1055
2010	#1429
2011	#1545
2012	#1297
2013	#1291
2014	#1411
2015	#1865
2016	#1525
2017	#1330
2018	#1343
2019	#1439
2020	#1618
2021	#1505
2022	#1948
2023	#1575
2024	#1449

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #869 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #735 among girls in England and Wales, in 2002 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1449 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Anam appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 652 births with the name.

Anam 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.

Anam'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	#869 (1996)	#735 (2002)	#1449 (2024)	29 of 29	652 (1996–2024)	35 (2002)
England and Wales · Boys	#3134 (2001)	#3134 (2001)	#3651 (2004)	2 of 4	6 (2001–2004)	3 (2001)

Anam 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 Anam in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	105	4 of 10	26
2000sbusiest	235	10 of 10	24
2010s	219	10 of 10	22
2020s	93	5 of 10	19

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 24 births a year.

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

Anam 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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #735 in England and Wales in 2002.

Anam'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	#1449	22	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1575	19	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1948	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1505	20	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1618	18	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1439	21	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1343	24	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1330	25	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1525	21	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1865	15	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1411	22	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1291	26	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1297	25	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1545	19	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1429	21	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1055	30	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1302	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2233	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1502	16	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#990	26	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#963	26	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#965	25	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#735	35	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#853	27	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1095	18	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#900	24	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#817	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#789	29	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#869	25	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 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #735, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 35 births, registered in England and Wales in 2002.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#1,449position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
35births registered in its largest year, 200225 to 49 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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Anamika · #2683, 20y

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.

Eesha · #735, 28y
Amba · #736, 28y
Chace · #734, 24y
Kwame · #733, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Eesha · #735, 28y
Alaa · #734, 29y
Amba · #736, 28y
Chace · #734, 24y

Anam was ranked #735 in England and Wales · Girls in 2002. 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.

Anam 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 Anam without appearing here.

Anam moved ahead of

Lorraine Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2233 and #1854 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1302 and #2721.
Jodie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1948 and #1948 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1575 and #2927.
Sandra Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1575 and #1525 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1449 and #2771.
Sofie Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1575 and #1525 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1449 and #2574.

Moved ahead of Anam

Ingrid Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1411 and #1628 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1865 and #1007.
Olive Compare
In 2005 they stood at #990 and #1012 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1502 and #816.
Aria Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1055 and #1248 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1429 and #773.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1411 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1865 and #1240.

Moved the opposite way to Anam

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anam went from #869 to #1449 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anam went from #869 to #1449 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anam went from #869 to #1449 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anam went from #869 to #1449 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Anam

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anam went from #869 to #1449 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anam went from #869 to #1449 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anam went from #869 to #1449 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anam went from #869 to #1449 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #735 in England and Wales in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Anam

Anam at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Anam across 2 official records

Anam by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Anam appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Anam at a glance

Anam across 2 official records

Anam by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Anam appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Anam

Anam and the names beside it

Anam moved ahead of

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