Anh

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Anh: Recorded since 1998, it reached #1,892 in 2006, and it stood at #3,254 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#1892highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
1999	#3225
2002	#3409
2004	#3197
2005	#3970
2006	#2781
2007	#2085
2008	#4524
2009	#2019
2010	#2589
2011	#2432
2012	#4171
2014	#4003
2016	#3609
2017	#3583
2018	#2901
2019	#2643
2020	#3447
2021	#5581
2022	#4645
2023	#5687

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 boys in England and Wales in 19 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3848 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1998–2024
Highest recorded position: #1892 among boys in England and Wales, in 2006 (recorded 1998–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3254 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Anh appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 128 births with the name.

Anh 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.

Anh'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 · Boys	#2901 (1998)	#1892 (2006)	#3254 (2024)	19 of 27	121 (1998–2024)	10 (2015)
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#2019 (2009)	#5687 (2023)	21 of 26	128 (1998–2023)	12 (2009)

Anh 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 Anh in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	2 of 10	4
2000sbusiest	47	7 of 10	7
2010s	58	8 of 10	7
2020s	16	4 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

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

Anh 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 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1892 in England and Wales in 2006.

Anh'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	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2728	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2150	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2270	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2432	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2019	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2276	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2085	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	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 1998 and 2024, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,892, first reached in 2006.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 12 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

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 3 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.

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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.

Draven · #1892, 20y
Eron · #1892, 24y
Imtiaz · #1892, 22y
Perez · #1892, 20y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Draven · #1892, 20y
Eron · #1892, 24y
Fayzan · #1892, 17y
Imtiaz · #1892, 22y

Anh 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 Anh without appearing here.

Anh moved ahead of

Finlay Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4524 and #3005 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2019 and #4564.
Lynette Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2781 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2019 and #4564.
Erin Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4647 and #2892 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #2270 and #4805.
Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3009 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1892 and #4052.

Moved ahead of Anh

Blake Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2432 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4171 and #1893.
Teddy Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3409 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4003 and #1798.
Maren Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3447 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3519.
Malin Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3447 and #3899 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3961.

Moved the opposite way to Anh

Ada Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Anh went from #3848 to #5687 while Ada went from #3142 to #37.
Alma Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Anh went from #3848 to #5687 while Alma went from #2165 to #228.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Anh went from #3848 to #5687 while Alyssa went from #561 to #241.
Amalie Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Anh went from #3848 to #5687 while Amalie went from #3848 to #865.

Moved the same way as Anh

Abigail Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Anh went from #3848 to #5687 and Abigail from #22 to #134.
Aimee Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Anh went from #3848 to #5687 and Aimee from #68 to #1206.
Aisling Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Anh went from #3848 to #5687 and Aisling from #391 to #2504.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Anh went from #3848 to #5687 and Alex from #179 to #2504.

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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 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1892 in England and Wales in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Anh

Anh at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Anh across 2 official records

Anh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Anh appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Anh across 2 official records

Anh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Anh appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Anh and the names beside it

Anh moved ahead of

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