Elham

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Elham: Recorded since 1996, it reached #2,163 in 2020, and it stood at #2,443 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#2163highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#3824
2001	#3262
2003	#4373
2004	#4598
2005	#4798
2008	#3860
2009	#2759
2011	#4049
2012	#2969
2013	#3536
2015	#4103
2016	#3609
2017	#5765
2018	#4684
2019	#4001
2020	#2163
2021	#3961
2022	#3533
2023	#3598
2024	#2574

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 21 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #2163 among girls in England and Wales, in 2020 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2574 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Elham appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 115 births with the name.

Elham 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.

Elham'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	#2683 (1996)	#2163 (2020)	#2574 (2024)	21 of 29	115 (1996–2024)	12 (2020)
England and Wales · Boys	#2174 (2005)	#2174 (2005)	#2443 (2024)	16 of 20	85 (2005–2024)	9 (2022)

Elham 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 Elham in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2000s	26	6 of 10	4
2010s	42	8 of 10	5
2020sbusiest	39	5 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

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

Elham appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2163 in England and Wales in 2020.

Elham'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	#2574	10	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2443	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2320	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2163	12	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3334	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2174	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,163, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 12 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

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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Elia · #288, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Mala · #2163, 26y
Uswa · #2163, 20y
Gurkirat · #2165, 20y
Jameelah · #2165, 23y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Mala · #2163, 26y
Rainbow · #2163, 15y
Gurkirat · #2165, 20y
Jameelah · #2165, 23y

Elham 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 Elham without appearing here.

Elham moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4001 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2163 and #5493.
Josefine Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5765 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2163 and #5493.
Therese Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4103 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2163 and #5493.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Elham

Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4103 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2706.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2163 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #1785.
Selma Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2683 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #3824 and #1958.
Noah Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2163 and #2615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #2201.

Moved the opposite way to Elham

Hayden Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elham went from #4798 to #2574 while Hayden went from #3970 to #5891.

Moved the same way as Elham

Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Elham went from #2683 to #3961 and Carol from #802 to #3519.
Tyler Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Elham went from #2683 to #3961 and Tyler from #230 to #5581.
Finlay Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Elham went from #2683 to #4684 and Finlay from #1646 to #4684.
Helene Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Elham went from #2683 to #4684 and Helene from #1168 to #4684.

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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2163 in England and Wales in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elham

Elham at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elham across 2 official records

Elham by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Elham appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Elham and the names beside it

Elham moved ahead of

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Elham at a glance

Elham across 2 official records

Elham by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Elham appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Elham and the names beside it

Elham moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Elham

Moved the opposite way to Elham

Moved the same way as Elham