Celyn

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Celyn: Recorded since 1996, it reached #816 in 2001, and it stood at #2,000 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
49times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#816highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1434
1997	#1287
1998	#1319
1999	#1473
2000	#1139
2001	#816
2003	#933
2004	#929
2005	#1012
2006	#1052
2007	#987
2008	#1206
2009	#1171
2010	#1389
2011	#1168
2012	#1037
2013	#1400
2014	#1367
2015	#1711
2016	#1749
2017	#1733
2018	#2187
2019	#3541
2020	#2615
2021	#1785
2022	#2888
2023	#2689
2024	#2000

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 girls in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years 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 #1434 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: #816 among girls in England and Wales, in 2001 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2000 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Celyn appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 538 births with the name.

Celyn 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.

Celyn'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	#2863 (1996)	#1799 (2023)	#2671 (2024)	21 of 29	143 (1996–2024)	13 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#1434 (1996)	#816 (2001)	#2000 (2024)	28 of 29	538 (1996–2024)	34 (2012)

Celyn 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 Celyn in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	52	4 of 10	13
2000sbusiest	231	9 of 10	26
2010s	199	10 of 10	20
2020s	56	5 of 10	11

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 26 births a year.

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

Celyn 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: #816 in England and Wales in 2001.

Celyn'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	#2000	14	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1799	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2165	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1785	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1984	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1986	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1733	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1749	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1711	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2483	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1367	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2690	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1400	23	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1037	34	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1168	28	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1389	22	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1171	26	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1206	24	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#987	30	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1052	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1012	25	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2418	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#929	28	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#933	26	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#816	29	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1139	17	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1473	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1319	14	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1287	14	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1434	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	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 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #816, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 34 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

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.

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

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.

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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.

Maaria · #816, 24y
Menna · #816, 29y
Imaani · #817, 25y
Lynden · #817, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Maaria · #816, 24y
Menna · #816, 29y
Imaani · #817, 25y
Lynden · #817, 28y

Celyn was ranked #816 in England and Wales · Girls in 2001. 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.

Celyn 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 Celyn without appearing here.

Celyn moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1785 and #5581.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3541 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #5493.
Belinda Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3541 and #3541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1785 and #4634.
Willow Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2693 and #2445 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1986 and #4702.

Moved ahead of Celyn

Mathilde Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1785 and #1962 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2888 and #1245.
Marilyn Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2187 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3541 and #2040.
Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1785 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2888 and #1452.
Eabha Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2187 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3541 and #2458.

Moved the opposite way to Celyn

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Celyn went from #1287 to #2000 while Blake went from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Celyn went from #1287 to #2000 while Ezra went from #3824 to #1302.
Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Celyn went from #816 to #2000 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Celyn went from #929 to #2000 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.

Moved the same way as Celyn

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Celyn went from #1434 to #2689 and Kristin from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Celyn went from #1434 to #2689 and Therese from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Celyn went from #1434 to #2689 and Tracey from #783 to #5687.
Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Celyn went from #1319 to #2689 and Josefine from #3848 to #5687.

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: #816 in England and Wales in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Celyn

Celyn at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Celyn across 2 official records

Celyn by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Celyn appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Celyn and the names beside it

Celyn moved ahead of

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Celyn at a glance

Celyn across 2 official records

Celyn by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Celyn appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Celyn

Celyn and the names beside it

Celyn moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Celyn

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