Anwen

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Anwen: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #763 in 2014, and it stood at #1,036 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#763highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1522
1997	#1958
1998	#1697
1999	#1393
2000	#1688
2001	#992
2002	#1317
2003	#855
2004	#948
2005	#866
2006	#855
2007	#1020
2008	#1206
2009	#1209
2010	#1040
2011	#1067
2012	#825
2013	#1018
2014	#763
2015	#942
2016	#1013
2017	#870
2018	#972
2019	#881
2020	#1100
2021	#1161
2022	#1006
2023	#1255
2024	#1036

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 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 #1522 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: #763 among girls in England and Wales, in 2014 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1036 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Anwen 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 Anwen in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	42	4 of 10	11
2000s	248	10 of 10	25
2010sbusiest	391	10 of 10	39
2020s	152	5 of 10	30

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 39 births a year.

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

Anwen 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: #763 in England and Wales in 2014.

Anwen'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	#1036	33	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1255	26	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1006	34	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1161	29	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1100	30	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#881	41	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#972	37	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#870	44	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1013	35	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#942	38	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#763	51	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1018	35	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#825	46	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1067	32	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1040	32	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1209	25	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1206	24	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1020	29	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#855	35	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#866	32	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#948	27	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#855	30	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1317	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#992	21	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1688	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1393	13	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1697	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1958	8	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1522	11	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 #763, first reached in 2014.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 51 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

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 →
#1,036position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
51births registered in its largest year, 201450 to 99 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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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.

Rahima · #764, 28y
Abubakr · #765, 29y
Naveed · #761, 25y
Nimrah · #761, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Anna-Leigh · #764, 15y
Artemis · #762, 27y
Bryanna · #764, 22y
Clarisse · #764, 19y

Anwen was ranked #763 in England and Wales · Girls in 2014. 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.

Anwen 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 Anwen without appearing here.

Anwen moved ahead of

Jenny Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1100 and #1100 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1161 and #2499.
Yvonne Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1688 and #1095 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #992 and #2023.
Marie Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1255 and #1087 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1036 and #1894.
Debra Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1697 and #1392 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1393 and #2189.

Moved ahead of Anwen

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #881 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1100 and #460.
Beau Compare
In 2001 they stood at #992 and #1107 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1317 and #809.
Maja Compare
In 2005 they stood at #866 and #951 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #855 and #456.
Rita Compare
In 2012 they stood at #825 and #916 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1018 and #699.

Moved the opposite way to Anwen

Vicki Compare
Between 1996 and 2012 in England and Wales · Girls, Anwen went from #1522 to #825 while Vicki went from #848 to #5876.

Moved the same way as Anwen

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anwen went from #1958 to #1036 and Blake from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anwen went from #1958 to #1036 and Ezra from #3824 to #1302.

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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: #763 in England and Wales in 2014. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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