Falak

maleStatistical record

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

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

Falak: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #717 in 2009, and it stood at #1,672 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#717highest recorded position
11groupings 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	#1914
1997	#2152
1998	#2407
1999	#2189
2000	#1831
2001	#2783
2002	#2105
2003	#2191
2004	#1312
2005	#1500
2006	#1119
2007	#963
2008	#859
2009	#717
2010	#910
2011	#1015
2012	#1099
2013	#999
2014	#1341
2015	#1240
2016	#1635
2017	#1411
2018	#1490
2019	#2040
2020	#2843
2021	#1785
2022	#1501
2023	#1863
2024	#1672

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 every year 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 #1914 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: #717 among girls in England and Wales, in 2009 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1672 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Falak appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 577 births with the name.

Falak 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.

Falak'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	#1914 (1996)	#717 (2009)	#1672 (2024)	29 of 29	577 (1996–2024)	51 (2009)
England and Wales · Boys	#3651 (2004)	#2418 (2005)	#5119 (2024)	4 of 21	15 (2004–2024)	6 (2005)

Falak 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 Falak in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	28	4 of 10	7
2000s	206	10 of 10	21
2010sbusiest	266	10 of 10	27
2020s	77	5 of 10	15

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 27 births a year.

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

Falak 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: #717 in England and Wales in 2009.

Falak'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	#1672	18	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1863	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1501	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1785	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2040	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1490	21	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1411	23	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1635	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1240	27	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1341	24	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#999	36	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1099	31	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1015	34	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#910	38	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#717	51	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#859	38	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#963	31	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1119	24	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1500	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2418	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1312	17	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2191	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1914	8	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 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #717, first reached in 2009.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 51 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#1,672position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
51births registered in its largest year, 200950 to 99 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.

Fajar · #1672, 21y
Fajr · #1326, 22y
Falaq · #1296, 25y
Falisha · #2432, 13y

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.

Faizah · #717, 29y
Maariya · #717, 29y
Xena · #717, 29y
Beck · #716, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Faizah · #717, 29y
Maariya · #717, 29y
Montana · #717, 30y
Xena · #717, 29y

Falak was ranked #717 in England and Wales · Girls in 2009. 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.

Falak 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 Falak without appearing here.

Falak moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1785 and #5581.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1500 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1119 and #3548.
Debra Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2783 and #2226 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2105 and #4137.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1863 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1672 and #3695.

Moved ahead of Falak

Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1831 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2783 and #1107.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2040 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #1313.
Ada Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1312 and #1617 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1500 and #951.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1785 and #1286.

Moved the opposite way to Falak

Vicki Compare
Between 1996 and 2012 in England and Wales · Girls, Falak went from #1914 to #1099 while Vicki went from #848 to #5876.
Martine Compare
Between 1996 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Falak went from #1914 to #1015 while Martine went from #2350 to #4764.
Rory Compare
Between 2010 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Falak went from #910 to #1672 while Rory went from #5707 to #1603.
Fiadh Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Falak went from #999 to #1672 while Fiadh went from #5742 to #374.

What's not yet available

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #717 in England and Wales in 2009. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Falak

Falak at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Falak across 2 official records

Falak by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Falak appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Falak

Falak and the names beside it

Falak moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Falak

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Falak at a glance

Falak across 2 official records

Falak by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Falak appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Falak

Falak and the names beside it

Falak moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Falak

Moved the opposite way to Falak