Baran

maleStatistical record

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

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

Baran: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #795 in 2003, and it stood at #1,322 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#795highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2021

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#3005
2013	#3536
2016	#4763
2017	#4763
2018	#3985
2021	#4634

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys 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 #2020 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #795 among boys in England and Wales, in 2003 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1322 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Baran appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 544 births with the name.

Baran 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.

Baran'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 · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#795 (2003)	#1322 (2024)	29 of 29	544 (1996–2024)	29 (2016)
England and Wales · Girls	#3005 (2008)	#3005 (2008)	#4634 (2021)	6 of 14	30 (2008–2021)	7 (2008)

Baran 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 Baran in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	33	4 of 10	8
2000sbusiest	205	10 of 10	21
2010s	203	10 of 10	20
2020s	103	5 of 10	21

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 21 births a year.

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

Baran 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: #795 in England and Wales in 2003.

Baran'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	#1322	20	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1108	26	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1224	22	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1391	18	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1431	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1152	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1061	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1097	26	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#994	29	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1186	22	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1721	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1116	23	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1669	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2194	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1344	18	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1649	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1403	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1053	23	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1048	21	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#827	28	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#875	24	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#795	26	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#824	22	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1202	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#817	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#973	15	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1367	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	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 #795, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 29 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

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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Barakah · #1948, 13y
Barbara · #10, 79y
Barbora · #661, 17y

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.

Blu · #798, 28y
Maleeha · #799, 29y
Zavier · #791, 28y
Harvie · #790, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Jorawar · #796, 16y
Anna-Maria · #798, 29y
Blu · #798, 28y
Talya · #798, 29y

Baran was ranked #795 in England and Wales · Boys in 2003. 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.

Baran 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 Baran without appearing here.

Baran moved ahead of

Robyn Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2020 and #1765 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #817 and #3036.
Kim Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1367 and #1367 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #973 and #2943.
Johannes Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1669 and #1313 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1116 and #2660.
Glenn Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2194 and #1909 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #1669 and #3039.

Moved ahead of Baran

Ezra Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3536 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4763 and #1689.
Marilyn Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3005 and #3397 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #3536 and #1707.
Carol Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3985 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #3519.
Theodor Compare
In 2013 they stood at #1116 and #1339 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1721 and #1012.

Moved the opposite way to Baran

Garry Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Baran went from #2020 to #1108 while Garry went from #573 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Baran went from #2020 to #1108 while Graeme went from #755 to #4107.
Nicola Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Baran went from #2020 to #1108 while Nicola went from #2863 to #4107.
Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Baran went from #2337 to #1108 while Kelly went from #1454 to #3523.

Moved the same way as Baran

Cooper Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Baran went from #2337 to #1322 and Cooper from #2022 to #139.
Espen Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Baran went from #824 to #1322 and Espen from #3225 to #5119.

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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #795 in England and Wales in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Baran

Baran at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Baran across 2 official records

Baran by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Baran appears in

Popularity data

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Baran at a glance

Baran across 2 official records

Baran by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Baran

Baran and the names beside it

Baran moved ahead of

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