Arran

maleStatistical record

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

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

Arran: Recorded since 1979, its highest recorded position is #51, reached in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
61times a registrar ranked it
46years from first to last
#51highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#208
1997	#207
1998	#235
1999	#256
2000	#258
2001	#273
2002	#275
2003	#263
2004	#305
2005	#353
2006	#336
2007	#356
2008	#496
2009	#532
2010	#603
2011	#516
2012	#625
2013	#762
2014	#744
2015	#765
2016	#928
2017	#743
2018	#932
2019	#813
2020	#962
2021	#985
2022	#1469
2023	#987
2024	#1025

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 28 of the 44 years from 1979 to 2022.

In 2024: #51 among boys in Scotland, #1025 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1979–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1979
First recorded at #292 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1979 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1025 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Arran appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 2,099 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1979.

Arran across 3 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.

Arran'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 · Boys	#292 (1979)	#196 (2000)	#657 (2022)	28 of 44	131 (1979–2022)	12 (2000)
England and Wales · Boys	#208 (1996)	#207 (1997)	#1025 (2024)	29 of 29	2,099 (1996–2024)	159 (1997)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#271 (1997)	#220 (2002)	#220 (2002)	3 of 6	11 (1997–2002)	5 (2002)

Arran by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Arran in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	556	4 of 10	139
2000sbusiest	955	10 of 10	96
2010s	453	10 of 10	45
2020s	135	5 of 10	27

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 96 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2007 and 2008, when recorded births fell by 33, from 103 to 70.

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

Arran 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 4 regions, from 1979 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #51 in Scotland in 2024.

Arran'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	#1025	29	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#987	30	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1469	17	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#985	30	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#962	29	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#813	38	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#932	31	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#743	46	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#928	32	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#765	42	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#744	43	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#762	42	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#625	56	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#516	68	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#603	55	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#532	64	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#496	70	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#356	103	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#336	104	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#353	89	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#305	97	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#263	116	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#275	101	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#273	101	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#258	110	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#256	114	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#235	130	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#207	159	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#208	153	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#220	5	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#271	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#548	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#542	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#532	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	6	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#473	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#351	6	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#305	7	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#409	3	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#196	12	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#266	6	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#261	7	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#334	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#263	5	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#337	3	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#323	3	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#247	6	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#269	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#274	4	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#330	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#292	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#51	88	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1979 and 2024, ranked in 40 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #51, first reached in 2024.

It held a top-100 place in 1 year.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 159 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 45 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.

Aroush · #624, 20y
Arrabella · #2042, 18y
Arren · #1578, 14y
Arrietty · #1351, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Aodhan · #52, 45y
Alannah · #49, 42y
Ashlee · #53, 36y
Joe · #48, 36y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Jarrod · #51, 37y
Aodhan · #52, 45y
Aoibheann · #50, 54y
Carly · #52, 46y

Arran was ranked #51 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. 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.

Arran 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 Arran without appearing here.

Arran moved ahead of

Ross Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1469 and #1366 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #987 and #2160.
Brendan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1469 and #1366 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #987 and #1701.
Darren Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1469 and #993 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #987 and #1272.
Jon Compare
In 1999 they stood at #334 and #334 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2000 that had become #196 and #390.

Moved ahead of Arran

Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #985 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1469 and #967.
Fionn Compare
In 2015 they stood at #765 and #790 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #928 and #691.
Arlo Compare
In 2008 they stood at #496 and #567 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #532 and #311.
Harris Compare
In 2007 they stood at #356 and #366 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #496 and #293.

Moved the opposite way to Arran

Aaron Compare
Between 1979 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Arran went from #292 to #657 while Aaron went from #104 to #62.
Adam Compare
Between 1979 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Arran went from #292 to #657 while Adam went from #106 to #22.
Alex Compare
Between 1979 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Arran went from #292 to #657 while Alex went from #292 to #24.
Alexander Compare
Between 1979 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Arran went from #292 to #657 while Alexander went from #150 to #40.

Moved the same way as Arran

Adrian Compare
Between 1979 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Arran went from #292 to #657 and Adrian from #51 to #225.
Alfred Compare
Between 1979 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Arran went from #292 to #657 and Alfred from #292 to #657.
Denis Compare
Between 1979 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Arran went from #292 to #657 and Denis from #53 to #178.
Edward Compare
Between 1979 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Arran went from #292 to #657 and Edward from #41 to #112.

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 4 regions, from 1979 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #51 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Arran

Arran at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Arran across 3 official records

Arran by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Arran appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Arran moved ahead of

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Arran at a glance

Arran across 3 official records

Arran by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Arran appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Arran

Arran and the names beside it

Arran moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Arran

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