Anthea

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Anthea: Recorded since 1969, with a gap of 14 years, it reached #296 in 1977, and it stood at #3,695 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
56years from first to last
#296highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Anthea's record

Absent from every published list for 14 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1997	#1802
1998	#3848
1999	#2444
2000	#3912
2002	#2540
2003	#2727
2004	#3725
2005	#2247
2006	#4157
2007	#4294
2008	#3397
2009	#4564
2011	#4764
2012	#4838
2013	#3536
2014	#5691
2015	#4103
2016	#5785
2017	#5765
2018	#4684
2019	#3541
2020	#3899
2023	#4709
2024	#3695

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 25 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1969–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1969
First recorded at #443 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1969 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1969–1981
Highest recorded position: #296 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1977 (recorded 1969–1981).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Anthea appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 25 ranked years and 133 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1969.

Anthea 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.

Anthea'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	#1168 (1996)	#1168 (1996)	#3695 (2024)	25 of 29	133 (1996–2024)	16 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#443 (1969)	#296 (1977)	#471 (1981)	9 of 13	48 (1969–1981)	11 (1977)

Anthea 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 Anthea in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	34	4 of 10	9
2000sbusiest	46	9 of 10	5
2010s	38	9 of 10	4
2020s	15	3 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 5 births a year.

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

Anthea 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 1969 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #296 in Republic of Ireland in 1977.

Anthea'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	#3695	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1802	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1168	16	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	4	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	4	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#363	7	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#522	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#296	11	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#344	7	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#406	5	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#428	4	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	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 1969 and 2024, ranked in 34 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #296, first reached in 1977.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 14 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 27 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.

Cecily · #297, 33y
Ciana · #295, 34y
Katriona · #297, 37y
Sameer · #297, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Cecily · #297, 33y
Katriona · #297, 37y
Yasin · #297, 51y
Youssef · #297, 40y

Anthea was ranked #296 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1977. 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.

Anthea 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 Anthea without appearing here.

Anthea moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Hunter Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4709 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Anthea

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3536 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #1628.
Janice Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3899 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #1959.
Maja Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1802 and #2152 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3848 and #1571.
Eabha Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4157 and #5061 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #2326.

Moved the opposite way to Anthea

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anthea went from #1168 to #3695 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anthea went from #1168 to #3695 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anthea went from #1168 to #3695 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anthea went from #1168 to #3695 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Anthea

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anthea went from #1168 to #3695 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anthea went from #1168 to #3695 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anthea went from #1168 to #3695 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anthea went from #1168 to #3695 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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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 1969 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #296 in Republic of Ireland in 1977. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Anthea

Anthea at a glance

What stands out in Anthea's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Anthea across 2 official records

Anthea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Anthea appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Anthea at a glance

What stands out in Anthea's record

Anthea across 2 official records

Anthea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Anthea appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Anthea

Anthea and the names beside it

Anthea moved ahead of

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