Cushla

femaleStatistical record

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

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

3registrars recorded it
10times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#337highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2004–2009

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#3725
2009	#5556

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 Republic of Ireland in 4 of the 20 years from 2004 to 2023.

In 2023: #391 among girls in Northern Ireland, #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2004–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2004
First recorded at #3725 among girls in England and Wales in 2004 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2017–2024
Highest recorded position: #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2017–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2024.
Northern Ireland · Girls

Cushla appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 4 years beginning in 2004, and has registered 13 births with the name.

Cushla 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.

Cushla'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 · Girls	#677 (2004)	#677 (2004)	#856 (2023)	4 of 20	13 (2004–2023)	4 (2015)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#432 (2017)	#337 (2024)	#337 (2024)	4 of 8	13 (2017–2024)	4 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#3725 (2004)	#3725 (2004)	#5556 (2009)	2 of 6	7 (2004–2009)	4 (2004)

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #337 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Cushla'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
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#337	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	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

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

Where Cushla is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Cushla, between 2004 and 2024, in 7 of those 21 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	2004–2009	2	#3725 in 2004
Republic of Ireland	2004–2023	4	#677 in 2004
Northern Ireland	2017–2024	4	#337 in 2024

Its high point came 20 years earlier in England and Wales (2004) than in Northern Ireland (2024).

No registrar recorded it for 5 years after 2009; it appears again in 2015.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2004 and 2024, ranked in 7 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #337, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 4 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 13 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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
2 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
6separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
5 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#337position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
13 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 11 to 20 years →
4births registered in its largest year, 2004Under 25 births →

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.

Cullen · #337, 30y
Curtis · #44, 33y
Cuthbert · #2755, 12y
Cy · #1330, 18y

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.

Novah · #333, 12y
Caila · #330, 9y
Lachlann · #330, 9y
Tulisa · #330, 10y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Adalyn · #337, 15y
Aniyah · #337, 22y
Araya · #336, 22y
Bella-Rose · #336, 18y

Cushla was ranked #337 in Northern Ireland · 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.

Adaline#337
Adalyn#337
Alaia#337
Allie#337
Abi#407
Adeline#407
Alaina#407
Alisha#407

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 3 regions, from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #337 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Cushla

Cushla at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cushla across 3 official records

Popularity data

Where Cushla is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Cushla

Cushla at a glance

Cushla across 3 official records

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Cushla