Faelan

maleStatistical record

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

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

3registrars recorded it
11times a registrar ranked it
17years from first to last
#404highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2009–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2009	#4527
2013	#4685
2016	#4023
2017	#4812
2020	#4608
2021	#4789
2024	#4270

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 3 of the 17 years from 2009 to 2025.

In 2024: #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #4270 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2009–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2009
First recorded at #4527 among boys in England and Wales in 2009 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Faelan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 7 years beginning in 2009, and has registered 23 births with the name.

Faelan 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.

Faelan'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 · Boys	#701 (2009)	#676 (2025)	#676 (2025)	3 of 17	10 (2009–2025)	4 (2025)
England and Wales · Boys	#4527 (2009)	#4023 (2016)	#4270 (2024)	7 of 16	23 (2009–2024)	4 (2016)

Faelan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Faelan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010s	10	3 of 10	3
2020s	10	3 of 10	3

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

Faelan 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 2009 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #404 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Faelan'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	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	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 2009 and 2025, ranked in 8 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #404, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 4 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 15 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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
2 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
5separate stretches the record falls into5 separate stretches →
3 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#676position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
15 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 11 to 20 years →
4births registered in its largest year, 2016Under 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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Fahd · #409, 26y

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.

Kaelum · #403, 12y
Saint · #403, 13y
Simas · #403, 13y
Briella · #407, 12y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Aira · #404, 19y
Ren · #404, 21y
Seb · #404, 24y
Aayat · #405, 19y

Faelan was ranked #404 in Northern Ireland · Boys 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.

Faelan 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 Faelan without appearing here.

Faelan moved ahead of

Espen Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4789 and #3451 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #4270 and #5119.
Glenn Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4789 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #4270 and #5119.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4789 and #1391 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #4270 and #5119.

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 2009 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #404 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Faelan

Faelan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Faelan across 2 official records

Faelan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Faelan appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Faelan

Faelan and the names beside it

Faelan moved ahead of

Faelan at a glance

Faelan across 2 official records

Faelan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Faelan appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Faelan

Faelan and the names beside it

Faelan moved ahead of