Garbhan

maleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
6times a registrar ranked it
17years from first to last
#267highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among boys in Northern Ireland · 1998–2008

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Northern Ireland · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#272
2003	#299
2008	#378

VerifiedSource: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names.Confidence: high.

See all Northern Ireland names · Source: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names

What the data shows

FallingNorthern Ireland · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 3 of the 17 years from 1992 to 2008.

In 2008: #378 among boys in Northern Ireland, #529 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1992–2008 · NISRA. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1992
First recorded at #267 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1992 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1992–2008
Highest recorded position: #267 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1992 (recorded 1992–2008).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2008
Most recently recorded at #378 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2008.
Northern Ireland · Boys

Garbhan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 3 years beginning in 1992, and has registered 13 births with the name.

Garbhan 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.

Garbhan'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	#267 (1992)	#267 (1992)	#529 (2008)	3 of 17	13 (1992–2008)	5 (1992)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#272 (1998)	#272 (1998)	#378 (2008)	3 of 11	9 (1998–2008)	3 (1998)

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1992 to 2008. Highest recorded position: #267 in Republic of Ireland in 1992.

Garbhan'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
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#378	3	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	male	#299	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#272	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#529	5	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#339	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#267	5	High	Verified

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.

Where Garbhan is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Garbhan, between 1992 and 2008, in 5 of those 17 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1992–2008	3	#267 in 1992
Northern Ireland	1998–2008	3	#272 in 1998

No registrar recorded it for 4 years after 1993; it appears again in 1998.

Garbhan was ranked #267 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1992. 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.

Alec#267
Ali#267
Allan#267
Ashley#267
Allen#298
Aubrey#298
Augustine#298
Bernie#298

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 1992 to 2008. Highest recorded position: #267 in Republic of Ireland in 1992. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Garbhan

Garbhan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Garbhan across 2 official records

Popularity data

Where Garbhan is officially recorded

Names published alongside Garbhan

Garbhan at a glance

Garbhan across 2 official records

Names published alongside Garbhan