Keilah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
10times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#700highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1998	#3848
2005	#4798
2007	#3218
2009	#4564
2011	#3549
2017	#4763
2025	#5927

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 8 of the 30 years from 1996 to 2025.

In 2009: #893 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4564 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 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 recorded2009–2020
Highest recorded position: #700 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2009–2020).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #5927 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Keilah appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 8 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 33 births with the name.

Keilah 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.

Keilah'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	#3126 (1996)	#3126 (1996)	#5927 (2025)	8 of 30	33 (1996–2025)	6 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#893 (2009)	#700 (2020)	#700 (2020)	2 of 12	7 (2009–2020)	4 (2020)

Keilah 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 Keilah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	2 of 10	4
2000s	13	3 of 10	4
2010s	10	2 of 10	5
2020s	3	1 of 10	3

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

Keilah 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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #700 in Republic of Ireland in 2020.

Keilah'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#5927	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	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 1996 and 2025, ranked in 9 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #700, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 6 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 13 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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
1 yearlongest unbroken run of ranked years
9separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
6 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#5,927position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
13 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 11 to 20 years →
6births registered in its largest year, 2007Under 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.

Kei · #2087, 19y
Keila · #372, 24y
Keilan · #423, 24y
Keir · #327, 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.

Abiel · #701, 11y
Iwo · #701, 10y
Klaidas · #701, 9y
Kristians · #699, 14y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Anouk · #700, 27y
Arfa · #700, 25y
Ilaria · #700, 26y
Lianna · #700, 30y

Keilah was ranked #700 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2020. 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.

Abi#700
Adeline#700
Aída#700
Aiza#700
Aaira#834
Aarna#834
Abbi#834
Adelaide#834

Keilah 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Keilah without appearing here.

Keilah moved ahead of

Finlay
In 2010 they stood at #4564 and #4564 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #3549 and #5785.
Kristine
In 2016 they stood at #3549 and #3549 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4763 and #5765.
Kristy
In 2008 they stood at #3218 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #5556.

Moved ahead of Keilah

Selma
In 2004 they stood at #3126 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #4798 and #1082.
Liv
In 2004 they stood at #3126 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #4798 and #1796.
Luca
In 1997 they stood at #3126 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3848 and #2407.

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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #700 in Republic of Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Keilah

Keilah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Keilah across 2 official records

Keilah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Keilah 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 Keilah

Keilah and the names beside it

Keilah moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Keilah

Keilah at a glance

Keilah across 2 official records

Keilah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Keilah 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 Keilah

Keilah and the names beside it

Keilah moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Keilah