Iqra

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Iqra: Recorded since 1988, it reached #184 in 2002, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
63times a registrar ranked it
38years from first to last
#184highest recorded position
15groupings 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	#342
1997	#307
1998	#276
1999	#274
2000	#270
2001	#208
2002	#184
2003	#198
2004	#249
2005	#241
2006	#245
2007	#258
2008	#283
2009	#270
2010	#284
2011	#264
2012	#317
2013	#313
2014	#312
2015	#352
2016	#356
2017	#389
2018	#415
2019	#368
2020	#426
2021	#389
2022	#344
2023	#291
2024	#301

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 Norway in 29 of the 37 years from 1988 to 2024.

In 2024: #301 among girls in England and Wales, #489 among girls in Norway.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1988–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1988
First recorded at #522 among girls in Norway in 1988 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #184 among girls in England and Wales, in 2002 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Iqra appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1988, and has registered 212 births with the name.

Iqra 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.

Iqra'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
Norway · Girls	#522 (1988)	#291 (1998)	#489 (2024)	29 of 37	212 (1988–2024)	15 (1991)
England and Wales · Girls	#342 (1996)	#184 (2002)	#301 (2024)	29 of 29	4,452 (1996–2024)	234 (2002)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#689 (2005)	#689 (2005)	#885 (2025)	5 of 21	15 (2005–2025)	3 (2005)

Iqra 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 Iqra in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	494	4 of 10	124
2000sbusiest	1,907	10 of 10	191
2010s	1,417	10 of 10	142
2020s	634	5 of 10	127

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 191 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2003 and 2004, when recorded births fell by 52, from 234 to 182.

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

Iqra 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 3 regions, from 1988 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #184 in England and Wales in 2002.

Iqra'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	#301	143	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#291	151	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#344	125	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#389	115	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#426	100	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#368	119	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#415	105	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#389	116	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#356	134	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#352	133	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#312	148	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#313	150	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#317	153	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#264	185	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#284	174	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#270	179	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#283	168	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#258	194	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#245	192	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#241	188	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#249	182	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#198	234	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#184	234	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#208	190	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#270	146	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#274	136	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#276	140	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#307	117	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#342	101	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#489	4	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#468	5	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#438	5	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#490	4	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#477	5	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#426	8	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#555	4	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#521	5	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#585	4	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#524	6	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#601	4	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#512	6	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#600	4	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#443	8	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#430	8	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#423	8	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#386	9	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#348	11	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#495	6	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#603	4	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#291	14	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#327	12	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#445	8	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#330	12	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#423	9	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#505	7	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#308	15	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#412	10	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#522	7	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
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 3 registrars between 1988 and 2025, ranked in 36 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #184, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 234 births, registered in England and Wales in 2002.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 17 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 3 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.

Radoslaw · #184, 41y
Ria · #179, 33y
Kelsie · #190, 31y
Dayna · #192, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Blain · #186, 13y
Blaine · #186, 38y
Klaudia · #187, 42y
Emilio · #188, 35y

Iqra was ranked #184 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.

Iqra 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 Iqra without appearing here.

Iqra moved ahead of

Reidun Compare
In 2001 they stood at #603 and #568 in Norway · Girls; by 2002 that had become #348 and #637.
Vigdis Compare
In 1992 they stood at #505 and #454 in Norway · Girls; by 1993 that had become #423 and #676.
Megan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #344 and #342 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #291 and #516.
Grethe Compare
In 2002 they stood at #495 and #492 in Norway · Girls; by 2003 that had become #386 and #594.

Moved ahead of Iqra

Iben Compare
In 1999 they stood at #291 and #330 in Norway · Girls; by 2000 that had become #603 and #195.
Leah Compare
In 1999 they stood at #291 and #406 in Norway · Girls; by 2000 that had become #603 and #207.
Ellinor Compare
In 1999 they stood at #291 and #325 in Norway · Girls; by 2000 that had become #603 and #255.
Lara Compare
In 1999 they stood at #291 and #615 in Norway · Girls; by 2000 that had become #603 and #311.

Moved the opposite way to Iqra

Matilda Compare
Between 1991 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Iqra went from #308 to #489 while Matilda went from #517 to #202.
Olivia Compare
Between 1991 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Iqra went from #308 to #489 while Olivia went from #520 to #3.
Amelia Compare
Between 1995 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Iqra went from #330 to #489 while Amelia went from #475 to #39.
Hennie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Iqra went from #327 to #489 while Hennie went from #610 to #35.

Moved the same way as Iqra

Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Iqra went from #184 to #301 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1988 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #184 in England and Wales in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Iqra

Iqra at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Iqra across 3 official records

Iqra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Iqra appears in

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Iqra at a glance

Iqra across 3 official records

Iqra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

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Iqra moved ahead of

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