Eimer

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Eimer: Recorded since 1964, it reached #229 in 1998, and it was last ranked in 2015.

3registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
52years from first to last
#229highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2005

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2152
1998	#2701
2000	#3912
2005	#4798

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 37 of the 46 years from 1964 to 2009.

In 2002: #286 among girls in Northern Ireland, #620 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1964–2015 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #234 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2015
Highest recorded position: #229 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 1998 (recorded 1997–2015).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2015
Most recently recorded at #426 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2015.
Northern Ireland · Girls

Eimer appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 37 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 221 births with the name.

Eimer 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.

Eimer'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	#234 (1964)	#234 (1964)	#641 (2009)	37 of 46	221 (1964–2009)	11 (1995)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#314 (1997)	#229 (1998)	#426 (2015)	6 of 19	26 (1997–2015)	6 (1998)
England and Wales · Girls	#2152 (1997)	#2152 (1997)	#4798 (2005)	4 of 9	18 (1997–2005)	7 (1997)

Eimer 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 Eimer in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	33	6 of 10	6
1970s	50	8 of 10	6
1980sbusiest	51	7 of 10	7
1990s	59	9 of 10	7
2000s	28	7 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

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

Eimer 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 3 regions, from 1964 to 2015. Highest recorded position: #229 in Northern Ireland in 1998.

Eimer'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
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#286	4	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#248	5	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#291	4	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#229	6	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#314	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#641	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	6	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	5	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#392	5	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#425	4	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#346	8	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#295	10	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#283	11	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#374	6	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#448	4	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#423	5	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#380	6	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#377	6	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#320	9	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#421	5	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#401	6	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#425	5	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#325	10	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#322	10	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	5	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#315	10	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#429	5	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#497	3	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#340	7	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#508	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#332	7	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#272	10	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	3	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#401	3	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	3	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#236	9	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#282	6	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#234	9	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.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1964 and 2015, ranked in 40 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #229, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1995.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 33 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.

Eimantas · #375, 12y
Eimear · #26, 62y
Eimhear · #154, 26y
Eimhin · #234, 29y

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.

Roxanne · #229, 36y
Sidra · #230, 40y
Kristopher · #227, 37y
Corina · #234, 44y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

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

Breffni · #229, 22y
Cathrin · #229, 31y
Godfrey · #229, 14y
Katja · #229, 48y

Eimer was ranked #229 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 1998. 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.

Eimer 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 Eimer without appearing here.

Eimer moved ahead of

Carmel Compare
In 2008 they stood at #764 and #764 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #641 and #893.
Judith Compare
In 2008 they stood at #862 and #750 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #641 and #893.
Lorraine Compare
In 2008 they stood at #862 and #597 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #641 and #893.
Suzanne Compare
In 2008 they stood at #862 and #750 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #641 and #893.

Moved ahead of Eimer

Elsie Compare
In 2007 they stood at #439 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #862 and #403.
Emilie Compare
In 2003 they stood at #439 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2004 that had become #677 and #287.
Millie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #441 and #498 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2002 that had become #620 and #238.
Nina Compare
In 2014 they stood at #286 and #339 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2015 that had become #426 and #155.

Moved the opposite way to Eimer

Aisling Compare
Between 1964 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Eimer went from #234 to #641 while Aisling went from #154 to #45.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1964 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Eimer went from #234 to #641 while Alexandra went from #222 to #78.
Amelia Compare
Between 1964 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Eimer went from #234 to #641 while Amelia went from #300 to #39.
Anna Compare
Between 1964 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Eimer went from #234 to #641 while Anna went from #34 to #16.

Moved the same way as Eimer

Amanda Compare
Between 1964 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Eimer went from #234 to #641 and Amanda from #118 to #263.
Angela Compare
Between 1964 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Eimer went from #234 to #641 and Angela from #24 to #299.
Anita Compare
Between 1964 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Eimer went from #234 to #641 and Anita from #130 to #539.
Ann Compare
Between 1964 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Eimer went from #234 to #641 and Ann from #4 to #239.

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 1964 to 2015. Highest recorded position: #229 in Northern Ireland in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Eimer

Eimer at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Eimer across 3 official records

Eimer by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Eimer appears in

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Eimer at a glance

Eimer across 3 official records

Eimer by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Eimer appears in

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Eimer

Eimer and the names beside it

Eimer moved ahead of

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