Arwa

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Arwa: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #341, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#341highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3174
1998	#1823
1999	#1805
2000	#2416
2001	#3262
2002	#2868
2003	#1843
2004	#1312
2005	#1343
2006	#1153
2007	#963
2008	#1206
2009	#1139
2010	#988
2011	#1067
2012	#1150
2013	#1018
2014	#1204
2015	#965
2016	#938
2017	#785
2018	#689
2019	#623
2020	#555
2021	#560
2022	#516
2023	#389
2024	#341

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.

In 2024: #341 among girls in England and Wales, #384 among girls in Scotland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 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: #341 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #341 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Arwa appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,046 births with the name.

Arwa 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.

Arwa'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	#3795 (1996)	#341 (2024)	#341 (2024)	29 of 29	1,046 (1996–2024)	127 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#536 (2000)	#536 (2000)	#898 (2024)	5 of 25	16 (2000–2024)	4 (2020)

Arwa 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 Arwa in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	25	4 of 10	6
2000s	164	10 of 10	16
2010s	405	10 of 10	41
2020sbusiest	452	5 of 10	90

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 90 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births rose by 29, from 77 to 106.

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

Arwa 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #341 in England and Wales in 2024.

Arwa'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	#341	127	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#389	106	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#516	77	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#560	71	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#555	71	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#623	63	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#689	58	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#785	50	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#938	39	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#965	37	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1204	28	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1018	35	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1150	29	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1067	32	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#988	34	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1139	27	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1206	24	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#963	31	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1153	23	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1343	17	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1312	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1823	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#384	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #341, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 127 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2000, and 28 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 3 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.

Johnnie · #341, 29y
Nichole · #340, 28y
Arden · #339, 24y
Bronwen · #339, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aibhe · #341, 18y
Cori · #341, 19y
Johnnie · #341, 29y
Nicol · #341, 26y

Arwa was ranked #341 in England and Wales · Girls 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.

Arwa 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 Arwa without appearing here.

Arwa moved ahead of

Francis Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3174 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1343 and #3970.
Finn Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2868 and #2868 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1343 and #3382.
Dylan Compare
In 1997 they stood at #3795 and #2350 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #1823 and #3848.
Marilyn Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1843 and #1843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1312 and #3197.

Moved the opposite way to Arwa

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwa went from #3795 to #341 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwa went from #3795 to #341 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwa went from #3795 to #341 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwa went from #3795 to #341 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Arwa

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwa went from #3795 to #341 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwa went from #3795 to #341 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwa went from #3795 to #341 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwa went from #3795 to #341 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #341 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Arwa

Arwa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Arwa across 2 official records

Arwa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Arwa appears in

Popularity data

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Arwa across 2 official records

Arwa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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