Hebe

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Hebe: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #782 in 2000, and it stood at #2,000 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#782highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#823
1997	#946
1998	#817
1999	#1060
2000	#782
2001	#835
2002	#1032
2003	#933
2004	#1106
2005	#1165
2006	#1585
2007	#1160
2008	#1344
2009	#1668
2010	#1429
2011	#2275
2012	#2338
2013	#2313
2014	#2058
2015	#2705
2016	#3214
2017	#2201
2018	#2674
2019	#2869
2020	#1846
2021	#2073
2022	#2178
2023	#2346
2024	#2000

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 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 #823 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: #782 among girls in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2000 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Hebe 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 Hebe in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	95	4 of 10	24
2000sbusiest	222	10 of 10	22
2010s	112	10 of 10	11
2020s	65	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 22 births a year.

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

Hebe 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: #782 in England and Wales in 2000.

Hebe'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	#2000	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2346	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2178	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1846	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2674	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2313	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2338	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2275	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1429	21	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1668	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1344	21	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1160	24	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1585	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1165	21	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1106	21	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#933	26	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1032	21	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#835	28	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#782	29	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1060	19	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#817	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#946	22	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#823	27	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 #782, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 29 births, registered in England and Wales in 2000.

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 →
#2,000position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
29births registered in its largest year, 200025 to 49 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.

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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.

Tamar · #782, 29y
Buster · #781, 29y
Jevon · #781, 26y
Tayyibah · #781, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Tamar · #782, 29y
Buster · #781, 29y
Jevon · #781, 26y
Tayyibah · #781, 28y

Hebe was ranked #782 in England and Wales · Girls in 2000. 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.

Hebe 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 Hebe without appearing here.

Hebe moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1846 and #5493.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2674 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2869 and #5591.
Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2313 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2058 and #4684.
Lorraine Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3214 and #2966 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #2201 and #4763.

Moved ahead of Hebe

Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2058 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2705 and #1240.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2201 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2674 and #1436.
Rita Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1429 and #1653 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2275 and #1067.
Ingrid Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1429 and #1472 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2275 and #1327.

Moved the opposite way to Hebe

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hebe went from #823 to #2000 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hebe went from #823 to #2000 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hebe went from #823 to #2000 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hebe went from #823 to #2000 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Hebe

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hebe went from #823 to #2000 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hebe went from #823 to #2000 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hebe went from #823 to #2000 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hebe went from #823 to #2000 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #782 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hebe

Hebe at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hebe by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Hebe appears in

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Hebe at a glance

Hebe by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Hebe appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Hebe

Hebe and the names beside it

Hebe moved ahead of

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