Hafsah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Hafsah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #305 in 2002, and it stood at #520 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#305highest recorded position
8groupings 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	#671
1997	#536
1998	#561
1999	#463
2000	#384
2001	#378
2002	#305
2003	#347
2004	#340
2005	#311
2006	#306
2007	#336
2008	#355
2009	#331
2010	#347
2011	#424
2012	#394
2013	#415
2014	#422
2015	#423
2016	#495
2017	#433
2018	#587
2019	#554
2020	#514
2021	#529
2022	#586
2023	#600
2024	#520

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.

In 2024: #520 among girls in England and Wales, #638 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #671 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: #305 among girls in England and Wales, in 2002 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #520 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Hafsah 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 Hafsah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	195	4 of 10	49
2000sbusiest	1,172	10 of 10	117
2010s	996	10 of 10	100
2020s	359	5 of 10	72

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 117 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2001 and 2002, when recorded births rose by 34, from 85 to 119.

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

Hafsah 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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #305 in England and Wales in 2002.

Hafsah'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	#520	75	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#600	63	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#586	66	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#529	77	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#514	78	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#554	73	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#587	70	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#433	101	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#495	88	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#423	104	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#422	103	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#415	102	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#394	119	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#424	104	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#347	132	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#331	133	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#355	125	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#336	129	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#306	144	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#311	132	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#340	113	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#347	108	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#305	119	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#378	85	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#384	84	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#463	63	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#561	48	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#536	49	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#671	35	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #305, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 144 births, registered in England and Wales in 2006.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 28 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.

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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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.

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Al · #305, 28y
Denzel · #305, 30y
Divine · #305, 29y
Eathan · #305, 19y

Hafsah was ranked #305 in England and Wales · Girls in 2002. 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.

Hafsah 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 Hafsah without appearing here.

Hafsah moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #384 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #378 and #871.
Lorraine Compare
In 1996 they stood at #671 and #661 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #536 and #1015.
Cheryl Compare
In 1996 they stood at #671 and #671 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #536 and #926.
Emilie Compare
In 2023 they stood at #600 and #545 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #520 and #837.

Moved ahead of Hafsah

Riley Compare
In 2015 they stood at #423 and #539 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #495 and #301.
Sienna Compare
In 2003 they stood at #347 and #427 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #340 and #155.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #347 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #424 and #261.
Willow Compare
In 2000 they stood at #384 and #427 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #378 and #251.

Moved the opposite way to Hafsah

Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hafsah went from #340 to #520 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.
Vicki Compare
Between 1996 and 2012 in England and Wales · Girls, Hafsah went from #671 to #394 while Vicki went from #848 to #5876.
Rory Compare
Between 2010 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hafsah went from #347 to #520 while Rory went from #5707 to #1603.

Moved the same way as Hafsah

Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hafsah went from #305 to #520 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #305 in England and Wales in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hafsah

Hafsah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hafsah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Hafsah at a glance

Hafsah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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