Anum

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Anum: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #789 in 2012, and it stood at #2,253 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#789highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#944
1997	#803
1998	#1036
1999	#1060
2000	#1389
2001	#1170
2002	#1658
2003	#1472
2004	#1459
2005	#1796
2006	#1386
2007	#1234
2008	#1815
2009	#1083
2010	#1125
2011	#1015
2012	#789
2013	#1018
2014	#1367
2015	#1168
2016	#1278
2017	#1733
2018	#2090
2019	#1854
2020	#1939
2021	#2073
2022	#2325
2023	#2063
2024	#2253

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 #944 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: #789 among girls in England and Wales, in 2012 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2253 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Anum 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 Anum in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	89	4 of 10	22
2000s	165	10 of 10	17
2010sbusiest	270	10 of 10	27
2020s	63	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 27 births a year.

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

Anum 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: #789 in England and Wales in 2012.

Anum'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	#2253	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2063	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2325	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1939	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1854	15	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1733	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1278	26	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1168	29	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1367	23	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1018	35	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#789	49	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1015	34	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1125	29	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1083	29	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1234	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1386	18	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1459	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1658	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1170	17	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1389	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1060	19	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1036	20	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#803	28	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#944	22	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 #789, first reached in 2012.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 49 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

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 →
#2,253position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
49births registered in its largest year, 201225 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.

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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 1990s

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

Adanna · #790, 26y
Ariadne · #790, 26y
Arwyn · #790, 23y
Bali · #790, 10y

Anum was ranked #789 in England and Wales · Girls in 2012. 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.

Anum 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 Anum without appearing here.

Anum moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2090 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1854 and #5591.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1796 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1386 and #3548.
Rachael Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1939 and #1939 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2073 and #3519.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2063 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #3695.

Moved ahead of Anum

Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2073 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2325 and #1452.
Ada Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1459 and #1617 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1796 and #951.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1939 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2073 and #1286.
Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1170 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1658 and #938.

Moved the opposite way to Anum

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anum went from #944 to #2253 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anum went from #944 to #2253 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anum went from #944 to #2253 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anum went from #944 to #2253 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Anum

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anum went from #944 to #2253 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anum went from #944 to #2253 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anum went from #944 to #2253 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anum went from #944 to #2253 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: #789 in England and Wales in 2012. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Anum by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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