Hilal

maleStatistical record

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

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

Hilal: Recorded since 2000, it reached #2,843 in 2010, and it stood at #4,270 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
25times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#2843highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3912
2002	#4137
2003	#3099
2004	#4598
2006	#5061
2007	#4294
2008	#5545
2009	#4564
2010	#2843
2016	#5785
2021	#5581
2022	#4645
2023	#4709
2024	#5891

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 14 of the 25 years from 2000 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2000–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2000
First recorded at #3912 among girls in England and Wales in 2000 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2000–2024
Highest recorded position: #2843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2010 (recorded 2000–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Hilal appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 14 years beginning in 2000, and has registered 53 births with the name.

Hilal 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.

Hilal'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	#3912 (2000)	#2843 (2010)	#5891 (2024)	14 of 25	53 (2000–2024)	8 (2010)
England and Wales · Boys	#2857 (2003)	#2857 (2003)	#4270 (2024)	11 of 22	43 (2003–2024)	5 (2013)

Hilal 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 Hilal in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000sbusiest	28	8 of 10	4
2010s	11	2 of 10	6
2020s	14	4 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 4 births a year.

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

Hilal 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 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2843 in England and Wales in 2010.

Hilal'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	#5891	3	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	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 2000 and 2024, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,843, first reached in 2010.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 8 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
5 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
6separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
2 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#4,270position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
1registrars publishing it in more than one category listIn one registrar's lists →
8births registered in its largest year, 2010Under 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.

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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.

Khalia · #2843, 14y
Maisie-May · #2843, 15y
Nataliya · #2843, 17y
Olimpia · #2843, 18y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Aidy · #2843, 13y
Amerie · #2843, 12y
Eleyna · #2843, 12y
Emmie-Lou · #2843, 10y

Hilal 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 Hilal without appearing here.

Hilal moved ahead of

Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4294 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2843 and #5707.
Lene Compare
In 2009 they stood at #5545 and #5545 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2843 and #4688.
Ellinor Compare
In 2008 they stood at #5545 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #5556.
Kristy Compare
In 2008 they stood at #5545 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #5556.

Moved ahead of Hilal

Braxton Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3865 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #4805 and #569.
Isak Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2857 and #3467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #3589 and #1440.
Daithi Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3937 and #4702 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4991 and #3112.
Harper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3099 and #4373 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #4598 and #3725.

Moved the opposite way to Hilal

Ada Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hilal went from #3912 to #5891 while Ada went from #1831 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hilal went from #3912 to #5891 while Alma went from #2416 to #234.
Amalie Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hilal went from #3912 to #5891 while Amalie went from #3912 to #1128.
Amelia Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hilal went from #3912 to #5891 while Amelia went from #35 to #2.

Moved the same way as Hilal

Abigail Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hilal went from #3912 to #5891 and Abigail from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hilal went from #3912 to #5891 and Aimee from #72 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hilal went from #3912 to #5891 and Aisling from #443 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hilal went from #3912 to #5891 and Alex from #186 to #2253.

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 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2843 in England and Wales in 2010. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hilal

Hilal at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hilal across 2 official records

Hilal by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Hilal appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

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Hilal and the names beside it

Hilal moved ahead of

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Hilal at a glance

Hilal across 2 official records

Hilal by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Hilal appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Hilal and the names beside it

Hilal moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Hilal

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