Hira

maleStatistical record

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

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

Hira: Recorded since 1993, its highest recorded position is #448, and it stood at #795 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
32years from first to last
#448highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#974
1997	#1365
1998	#1076
1999	#1018
2000	#1033
2001	#1107
2002	#1104
2003	#1129
2004	#963
2005	#1406
2006	#1325
2007	#1296
2008	#1641
2009	#1596
2010	#1332
2011	#1807
2012	#1253
2013	#959
2014	#859
2015	#1088
2016	#1057
2017	#1184
2018	#1170
2019	#854
2020	#1164
2021	#1402
2022	#1180
2023	#981
2024	#795

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 2016: #868 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1057 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1993–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1993
First recorded at #448 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1993 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1993–2016
Highest recorded position: #448 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1993 (recorded 1993–2016).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #795 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Hira appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 737 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1993.

Hira across 3 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.

Hira'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	#974 (1996)	#795 (2024)	#795 (2024)	29 of 29	737 (1996–2024)	47 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#448 (1993)	#448 (1993)	#868 (2016)	2 of 24	7 (1993–2016)	4 (1993)
England and Wales · Boys	#4789 (2021)	#4789 (2021)	#5119 (2024)	2 of 4	6 (2021–2024)	3 (2021)

Hira 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 Hira in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	73	4 of 10	18
2000s	192	10 of 10	19
2010s	312	10 of 10	31
2020sbusiest	160	5 of 10	32

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 32 births a year.

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

Hira 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 1993 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #448 in Republic of Ireland in 1993.

Hira'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	#795	47	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#981	35	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1180	28	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1402	22	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1164	28	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#854	43	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1170	29	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1184	29	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1088	32	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#859	44	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#959	38	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1253	26	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1807	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1332	23	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1596	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1641	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1296	21	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1325	19	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1406	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#963	26	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1129	20	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1104	19	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1033	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1018	20	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1076	19	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1365	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#974	21	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#448	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 1993 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #448, first reached in 1993.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 47 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

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

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 3 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.

Hind · #606, 21y
Hindy · #1774, 25y
Hirah · #1702, 19y
Hiro · #1655, 17y

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.

Huzaifa · #448, 30y
Libbie · #448, 28y
Shanaya · #448, 29y
Yan · #448, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Faruq · #448, 11y
Huzaifa · #448, 30y
Libbie · #448, 28y
Shanaya · #448, 29y

Hira was ranked #448 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1993. 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.

Hira 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 Hira without appearing here.

Hira moved ahead of

Tyler Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1807 and #1665 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1253 and #2521.
Jenny Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1164 and #1100 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1402 and #2499.
Tania Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1807 and #1327 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1253 and #2338.
Cheryl Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1807 and #1327 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1253 and #2215.

Moved ahead of Hira

Rita Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1332 and #1653 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1807 and #1067.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #854 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1164 and #460.
Aurora Compare
In 2004 they stood at #963 and #1043 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1406 and #769.
Astrid Compare
In 2004 they stood at #963 and #1158 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1406 and #916.

Moved the same way as Hira

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hira went from #1365 to #795 and Blake from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hira went from #1365 to #795 and Ezra from #3824 to #1302.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Hira went from #974 to #1402 and Carol from #802 to #3519.
Tyler Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Hira went from #974 to #1402 and Tyler from #230 to #5581.

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 1993 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #448 in Republic of Ireland in 1993. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hira

Hira at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hira across 3 official records

Hira by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Hira appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Hira

Hira and the names beside it

Hira moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Hira

Moved the same way as Hira

Hira at a glance

Hira across 3 official records

Hira by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Hira appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Hira

Hira and the names beside it

Hira moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Hira

Moved the same way as Hira