Fionna

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Fionna: Recorded since 1964, with a gap of 17 years, its highest recorded position is #327, and it was last ranked in 2009.

2registrars recorded it
11times a registrar ranked it
46years from first to last
#327highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Fionna's record

Absent from every published list for 17 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2009

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
2006	#5061
2009	#5556

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 8 of the 16 years from 1964 to 1979.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1964–2009 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #327 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 recorded1964–1979
Highest recorded position: #327 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1964 (recorded 1964–1979).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2009
Most recently recorded at #5556 among girls in England and Wales, in 2009.
England and Wales · Girls

Fionna appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 8 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 32 births with the name.

Fionna 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.

Fionna'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	#327 (1964)	#327 (1964)	#523 (1979)	8 of 16	32 (1964–1979)	5 (1970)
England and Wales · Girls	#3174 (1997)	#3174 (1997)	#5556 (2009)	3 of 13	10 (1997–2009)	4 (1997)

Fionna 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 1964 to 2009. Highest recorded position: #327 in Republic of Ireland in 1964.

Fionna'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
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#389	5	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	4	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#363	5	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	4	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#357	4	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	3	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#327	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 1964 and 2009, ranked in 11 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #327, first reached in 1964.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 5 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1970.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 17 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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
6 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
6separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
17 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period10 to 19 years missing →
#5,556position in 2009, its most recent recorded year
33 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 21 to 40 years →
5births registered in its largest year, 1970Under 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.

Fionan · #223, 41y
Fionn · #6, 51y
Fionnan · #211, 34y
Fionntan · #167, 28y

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.

Mamie · #325, 14y
Geoff · #323, 11y
Aobh · #332, 11y
Esmond · #321, 11y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

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

Gladys · #327, 26y
Ingrida · #327, 23y
Lucille · #327, 41y
Mahamed · #327, 51y

Fionna was ranked #327 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1964. 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.

Fionna 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 Fionna without appearing here.

Moved ahead of Fionna

Melissa Compare
In 1967 they stood at #327 and #372 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1968 that had become #357 and #250.
Lara Compare
In 1970 they stood at #363 and #396 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1971 that had become #417 and #326.
Nicole Compare
In 1966 they stood at #327 and #372 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1967 that had become #393 and #315.
Ashley Compare
In 1967 they stood at #327 and #372 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1968 that had become #357 and #287.

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 1964 to 2009. Highest recorded position: #327 in Republic of Ireland in 1964. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Fionna

Fionna at a glance

What stands out in Fionna's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Fionna across 2 official records

Fionna appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Fionna

Fionna and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Fionna

Fionna at a glance

What stands out in Fionna's record

Fionna across 2 official records

Fionna appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Fionna

Fionna and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Fionna