Ioana

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Ioana: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #465, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#465highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3142
2003	#4373
2004	#4598
2005	#3382
2006	#4157
2007	#3667
2008	#3860
2009	#2148
2010	#1815
2011	#1729
2012	#1525
2013	#1956
2014	#1367
2015	#1088
2016	#1172
2017	#785
2018	#920
2019	#823
2020	#821
2021	#1007
2022	#1142
2023	#1469
2024	#1160

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 23 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2022: #747 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1142 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1998–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3142 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2000–2025
Highest recorded position: #465 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2000 (recorded 2000–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Ioana appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 481 births with the name.

Ioana 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.

Ioana'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	#3142 (1998)	#785 (2017)	#1160 (2024)	23 of 27	481 (1998–2024)	50 (2017)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#465 (2000)	#465 (2000)	#885 (2025)	9 of 26	34 (2000–2025)	5 (2008)

Ioana 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 Ioana in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	4	1 of 10	4
2000s	36	7 of 10	5
2010s	284	10 of 10	28
2020sbusiest	157	5 of 10	31

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 31 births a year.

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

Ioana 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 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #465 in Republic of Ireland in 2000.

Ioana'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	#1160	29	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1469	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1142	29	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1007	34	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#821	44	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#823	45	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#920	40	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#785	50	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1172	29	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1088	32	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1367	23	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1956	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1525	20	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1729	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1815	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2148	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#665	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#465	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 1998 and 2025, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #465, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 50 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2000, and 2 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.

Io · #2711, 13y
Ioan · #292, 30y
Ioanna · #2286, 23y
Ioannis · #1289, 29y

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.

Timo · #465, 23y
Veer · #466, 27y
Eugenie · #467, 29y
Izabelle · #463, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Chanice · #465, 18y
Timo · #465, 23y
Carlton · #464, 29y
Carwyn · #464, 27y

Ioana was ranked #465 in Republic of Ireland · 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.

Ioana 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 Ioana without appearing here.

Ioana moved ahead of

Hennie Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4598 and #4598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1367 and #5691.
Evan Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3860 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1729 and #5785.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3667 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1815 and #5707.
Ellinor Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3860 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2148 and #5556.

Moved ahead of Ioana

Ivy Compare
In 2011 they stood at #665 and #862 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #907 and #371.
Aurora Compare
In 2011 they stood at #665 and #750 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #907 and #474.
Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1088 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1172 and #768.
Rita Compare
In 2020 they stood at #621 and #871 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2021 that had become #883 and #517.

Moved the opposite way to Ioana

Abigail Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ioana went from #3142 to #1160 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ioana went from #3142 to #1160 while Aimee went from #68 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ioana went from #3142 to #1160 while Aisling went from #391 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ioana went from #3142 to #1160 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Ioana

Ada Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ioana went from #3142 to #1160 and Ada from #3142 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ioana went from #3142 to #1160 and Alma from #2165 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ioana went from #3142 to #1160 and Alyssa from #561 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ioana went from #3142 to #1160 and Amalie from #3848 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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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 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #465 in Republic of Ireland in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ioana

Ioana at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ioana across 2 official records

Ioana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Ioana across 2 official records

Ioana by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ioana

Ioana and the names beside it

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