Edele

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Edele: Recorded since 1967, with a gap of 13 years, it reached #248 in 1977, and it was last ranked in 2000.

2registrars recorded it
15times a registrar ranked it
34years from first to last
#248highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Edele's record

Absent from every published list for 13 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2000

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2000	#3912

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 13 of the 19 years from 1967 to 1985.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1967–2000 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1967
First recorded at #354 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1967 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1967–1985
Highest recorded position: #248 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1977 (recorded 1967–1985).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2000
Most recently recorded at #3912 among girls in England and Wales, in 2000.
England and Wales · Girls

Edele appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 13 years beginning in 1967, and has registered 65 births with the name.

Edele 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.

Edele'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	#354 (1967)	#248 (1977)	#456 (1985)	13 of 19	65 (1967–1985)	16 (1977)
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#3900 (1999)	#3912 (2000)	2 of 2	6 (1999–2000)	3 (1999)

Edele by decade in Republic of Ireland · 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 Edele in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	8	2 of 10	4
1970sbusiest	41	7 of 10	6
1980s	16	4 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Edele 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 1967 to 2000. Highest recorded position: #248 in Republic of Ireland in 1977.

Edele'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
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#456	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#533	3	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#401	6	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	5	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#248	16	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#497	3	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#374	6	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#508	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#428	4	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	4	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	4	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#354	4	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 1967 and 2000, ranked in 15 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #248, first reached in 1977.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1977.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 13 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1999, and 32 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.

5decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 5 decades →
4 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
7separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
13 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period10 to 19 years missing →
#3,912position in 2000, its most recent recorded year
32 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 21 to 40 years →
16births registered in its largest year, 1977Under 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.

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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.

Padhraig · #248, 13y
Alain · #249, 15y
Kevan · #249, 19y
Honora · #251, 20y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Egidijus · #248, 28y
Naoimh · #248, 27y
Padhraig · #248, 13y
Ramunas · #248, 23y

Edele was ranked #248 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1977. 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.

Edele 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 Edele without appearing here.

Edele moved ahead of

Karin Compare
In 1976 they stood at #497 and #429 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1977 that had become #248 and #468.
Isabella Compare
In 1976 they stood at #497 and #497 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1977 that had become #248 and #391.
Rhonda Compare
In 1984 they stood at #516 and #414 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1985 that had become #456 and #519.
Sophia Compare
In 1984 they stood at #516 and #459 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1985 that had become #456 and #519.

Moved ahead of Edele

Kate Compare
In 1975 they stood at #374 and #393 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1976 that had become #497 and #271.
Cara Compare
In 1978 they stood at #248 and #254 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1979 that had become #420 and #230.
Jamie Compare
In 1980 they stood at #401 and #542 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1981 that had become #533 and #351.
Lynette Compare
In 1978 they stood at #248 and #311 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1979 that had become #420 and #243.

Moved the same way as Edele

Violet Compare
Between 1967 and 1981 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Edele went from #354 to #533 and Violet from #246 to #533.

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 2 regions, from 1967 to 2000. Highest recorded position: #248 in Republic of Ireland in 1977. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Edele

Edele at a glance

What stands out in Edele's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Edele across 2 official records

Edele by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Edele appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Edele at a glance

What stands out in Edele's record

Edele across 2 official records

Edele by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

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What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Edele

Edele and the names beside it

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