Dahlia

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Dahlia: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #275, reached in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#275highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
1998	#3848
1999	#2189
2001	#2023
2002	#4137
2003	#4373
2004	#3725
2005	#4798
2006	#2509
2007	#3667
2008	#2292
2009	#1668
2010	#1653
2011	#1327
2012	#1525
2013	#959
2014	#890
2015	#845
2016	#790
2017	#968
2018	#767
2019	#838
2020	#582
2021	#509
2022	#576
2023	#425
2024	#425

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 27 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #275 among girls in Scotland, #425 among girls in England and Wales, #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3824 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — 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 #425 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Dahlia appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 850 births with the name.

Dahlia 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.

Dahlia'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	#3824 (1997)	#425 (2023)	#425 (2024)	27 of 28	850 (1997–2024)	101 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#910 (2010)	#404 (2023)	#631 (2024)	6 of 15	26 (2010–2024)	9 (2023)

Dahlia 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 Dahlia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	13	3 of 10	4
2000s	60	9 of 10	7
2010s	365	10 of 10	37
2020sbusiest	412	5 of 10	82

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 82 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births rose by 29, from 67 to 96.

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

Dahlia 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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #275 in Scotland in 2024.

Dahlia'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	#425	101	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#425	96	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#576	67	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#509	81	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#582	67	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#838	44	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#767	50	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#968	38	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#790	49	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#845	44	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#890	42	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#959	38	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1525	20	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1327	23	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1653	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1668	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#404	9	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#275	13	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 1997 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #275, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 101 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

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

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 27 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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Daina · #655, 16y

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.

Juno · #275, 27y
Lilith · #275, 30y
Lylah · #275, 22y
Aarav · #276, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Juno · #275, 27y
Lilith · #275, 30y
Micheala · #275, 21y
Sahil · #275, 29y

Dahlia was ranked #275 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.

Dahlia 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 Dahlia without appearing here.

Dahlia moved ahead of

Vicki Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4798 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1525 and #5876.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3667 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1653 and #5707.
Gail Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3667 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2292 and #5545.
George Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3725 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2292 and #5545.

Moved ahead of Dahlia

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #838 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #582 and #460.
Harper Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2023 and #3262 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #4373.

Moved the opposite way to Dahlia

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dahlia went from #3824 to #425 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dahlia went from #3824 to #425 while Aimee went from #61 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dahlia went from #3824 to #425 while Aisling went from #496 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dahlia went from #3824 to #425 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Dahlia

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dahlia went from #3824 to #425 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dahlia went from #3824 to #425 and Alma from #2411 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dahlia went from #3824 to #425 and Alyssa from #506 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dahlia went from #3824 to #425 and Amalie from #3824 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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #275 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Dahlia

Dahlia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dahlia across 2 official records

Dahlia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Dahlia at a glance

Dahlia across 2 official records

Dahlia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Dahlia and the names beside it

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