Arwen

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Arwen: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #215, reached in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#215highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#2701
2000	#3912
2001	#2226
2002	#842
2003	#583
2004	#542
2005	#604
2006	#869
2007	#854
2008	#916
2009	#879
2010	#1013
2011	#789
2012	#654
2013	#882
2014	#740
2015	#923
2016	#804
2017	#753
2018	#657
2019	#651
2020	#589
2021	#747
2022	#382
2023	#516
2024	#447

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 26 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #215 among girls in Scotland, #407 among girls in Northern Ireland, #447 among girls in England and Wales, #556 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2701 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #447 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Arwen appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 1,243 births with the name.

Arwen 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.

Arwen'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	#2701 (1998)	#382 (2022)	#447 (2024)	26 of 27	1,243 (1998–2024)	111 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#331 (2003)	#331 (2003)	#407 (2024)	5 of 22	16 (2003–2024)	4 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#370 (2004)	#370 (2004)	#556 (2024)	18 of 21	110 (2004–2024)	12 (2012)

Arwen 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 Arwen in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	5	1 of 10	5
2000s	343	10 of 10	34
2010s	499	10 of 10	50
2020sbusiest	396	5 of 10	79

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 79 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2021 and 2022, when recorded births rose by 61, from 50 to 111.

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

Arwen 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 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #215 in Scotland in 2024.

Arwen'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	#447	93	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#516	76	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#382	111	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#747	50	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#589	66	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#651	60	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#657	61	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#753	53	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#804	48	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#923	39	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#740	53	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#882	42	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#654	63	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#789	47	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1013	33	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#879	38	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#916	35	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#854	37	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#869	34	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#604	53	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#542	58	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#583	50	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#842	28	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#331	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#556	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	7	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#579	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#458	9	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#399	11	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#398	12	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#465	9	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#593	6	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#370	8	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#215	17	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 1998 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #215, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 111 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 26 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.

Arwa · #341, 29y
Arwaa · #1767, 17y
Arwin · #2671, 13y
Arwyn · #790, 23y

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.

Ember · #215, 24y
Kade · #216, 30y
Coby · #213, 30y
Matas · #213, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Ember · #215, 24y
Haydn · #215, 29y
Radha · #215, 27y
Cai · #214, 29y

Arwen was ranked #215 in Scotland · 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.

Arwen 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 Arwen without appearing here.

Arwen moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2226 and #2226 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #842 and #4137.
Jan Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3912 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #583 and #3594.
Linnea Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3912 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #583 and #3594.
Freddie Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3912 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #869 and #3548.

Moved ahead of Arwen

Maja Compare
In 2007 they stood at #370 and #677 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #862 and #73.
Florence Compare
In 2007 they stood at #370 and #576 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #862 and #430.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #789 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #654 and #284.
Poppy Compare
In 2004 they stood at #370 and #511 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2005 that had become #587 and #256.

Moved the opposite way to Arwen

Abigail Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwen went from #2701 to #447 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwen went from #2701 to #447 while Aimee went from #68 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwen went from #2701 to #447 while Aisling went from #391 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwen went from #2701 to #447 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Arwen

Ada Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwen went from #2701 to #447 and Ada from #3142 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwen went from #2701 to #447 and Alma from #2165 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwen went from #2701 to #447 and Alyssa from #561 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arwen went from #2701 to #447 and Amalie from #3848 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #215 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Arwen

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Arwen across 3 official records

Arwen by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Arwen appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Arwen across 3 official records

Arwen by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Arwen

Arwen and the names beside it

Arwen moved ahead of

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