Demelza

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Demelza: Recorded since 1976, with a gap of 14 years, its highest recorded position is #260, and it stood at #3,318 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
49years from first to last
#260highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Demelza's record

Absent from every published list for 14 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#2738
1998	#3142
1999	#2189
2000	#2746
2001	#3998
2002	#1658
2003	#3594
2004	#2802
2005	#3970
2006	#1983
2007	#5201
2008	#4524
2010	#4012
2011	#5785
2012	#5876
2013	#5742
2014	#4003
2015	#2496
2016	#2120
2017	#1995
2018	#2187
2019	#1782
2020	#1846
2021	#2341
2022	#1685
2023	#1959
2024	#3318

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 from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1976–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1976
First recorded at #260 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1976 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1976–1981
Highest recorded position: #260 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1976 (recorded 1976–1981).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3318 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Demelza appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 28 ranked years and 222 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1976.

Demelza 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.

Demelza'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	#2096 (1996)	#1658 (2002)	#3318 (2024)	28 of 29	222 (1996–2024)	17 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#260 (1976)	#260 (1976)	#471 (1981)	6 of 6	55 (1976–1981)	14 (1976)

Demelza 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 Demelza in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	23	4 of 10	6
2000s	51	9 of 10	6
2010s	84	10 of 10	8
2020sbusiest	64	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 13 births a year.

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

Demelza 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 2 regions, from 1976 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #260 in Republic of Ireland in 1976.

Demelza'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	#3318	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1959	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1685	17	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1846	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1782	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1995	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2120	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2496	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1658	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	4	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	8	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#315	11	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#388	6	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#283	12	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#260	14	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1976 and 2024, ranked in 34 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #260, first reached in 1976.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 17 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 14 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 20 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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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Clarke · #262, 29y
Corinna · #262, 34y
Danial · #258, 32y
Dhruv · #262, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Darron · #260, 15y
Fleur · #260, 33y
Janniche · #260, 18y
Fredrikke · #261, 41y

Demelza was ranked #260 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1976. 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.

Demelza 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 Demelza without appearing here.

Demelza moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2187 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1782 and #5591.
Finlay Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5742 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2120 and #5785.
Lynette Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5742 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2187 and #5666.
Tyler Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4003 and #3160 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2496 and #5730.

Moved ahead of Demelza

Liv Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1983 and #2137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #5201 and #1573.
Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2746 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #3998 and #1107.
Ezra Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4012 and #5707 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #3185.
Aria Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1658 and #2540 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #3594 and #1472.

Moved the opposite way to Demelza

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Demelza went from #2096 to #3318 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Demelza went from #2096 to #3318 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Demelza went from #2096 to #3318 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Demelza went from #2096 to #3318 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Demelza

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Demelza went from #2096 to #3318 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Demelza went from #2096 to #3318 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Demelza went from #2096 to #3318 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Demelza went from #2096 to #3318 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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 2 regions, from 1976 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #260 in Republic of Ireland in 1976. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Demelza

Demelza at a glance

What stands out in Demelza's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Demelza across 2 official records

Demelza by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Demelza appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Demelza at a glance

What stands out in Demelza's record

Demelza across 2 official records

Demelza by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Demelza appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Demelza

Demelza and the names beside it

Demelza moved ahead of

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