Aobh

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Aobh: Recorded since 2000, it reached #332 in 2006, and it was last ranked in 2014.

2registrars recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
15years from first to last
#332highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in Northern Ireland · 2000–2007

View as table

Northern Ireland · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#348
2004	#372
2006	#332
2007	#413

VerifiedSource: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names.Confidence: high.

See all Northern Ireland names · Source: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names

What the data shows

FallingNorthern Ireland · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 8 of the 13 years from 2002 to 2014.

In 2007: #413 among girls in Northern Ireland, #624 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2000–2014 · NISRA. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2000
First recorded at #348 among girls in Northern Ireland in 2000 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Northern Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded2000–2007
Highest recorded position: #332 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2006 (recorded 2000–2007).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2014
Most recently recorded at #752 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2014.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Aobh appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, with 8 ranked years and 31 births registered; the earliest is Northern Ireland · Girls, from 2000.

Aobh 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.

Aobh'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#620 (2002)	#461 (2005)	#752 (2014)	8 of 13	31 (2002–2014)	6 (2005)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#348 (2000)	#332 (2006)	#413 (2007)	4 of 8	13 (2000–2007)	4 (2006)

Aobh 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 2000 to 2014. Highest recorded position: #332 in Northern Ireland in 2006.

Aobh'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
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#332	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#348	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#624	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#461	6	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified

Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 2000 and 2014, ranked in 11 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #332, first reached in 2006.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 6 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 2005.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 2 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.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
7 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
5separate stretches the record falls into5 separate stretches →
1 yearlongest absence inside the recorded periodA single year missing →
#752position in 2014, its most recent recorded year
2 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itWithin 2 years →
6births registered in its largest year, 2005Under 25 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.

Anya · #123, 34y
Anzal · #3318, 10y
Aobha · #317, 14y
Aodan · #254, 20y

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.

Fionna · #327, 11y
Luisne · #337, 9y
Taidgh · #337, 12y
Kohan · #339, 14y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Elsie-Mae · #333, 19y
Hailie · #331, 25y
Jayla · #333, 22y
Malia · #331, 25y

Aobh was ranked #332 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2006. 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.

Aobh 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 Aobh without appearing here.

Aobh moved ahead of

Renee Compare
In 2011 they stood at #910 and #758 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #768 and #907.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2013 they stood at #768 and #768 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #752 and #876.
Deirdre Compare
In 2013 they stood at #910 and #663 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #752 and #876.
Denise Compare
In 2013 they stood at #768 and #612 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #752 and #876.

Moved ahead of Aobh

Marianne Compare
In 2007 they stood at #624 and #842 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #862 and #469.
Willow Compare
In 2006 they stood at #461 and #689 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2007 that had become #624 and #373.
Violet Compare
In 2007 they stood at #624 and #842 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #862 and #665.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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 2000 to 2014. Highest recorded position: #332 in Northern Ireland in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Aobh

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aobh across 2 official records

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Aobh at a glance

Aobh across 2 official records

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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