Koah

maleStatistical record

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

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

Koah: Recorded since 2014, it reached #266 in 2021, and it stood at #402 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
17times a registrar ranked it
12years from first to last
#266highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2019–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2019	#4686
2023	#5687

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 boys in England and Wales in 9 of the 11 years from 2014 to 2024.

In 2024: #727 among boys in Scotland, #880 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2014–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2014
First recorded at #2248 among boys in England and Wales in 2014 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2021–2023
Highest recorded position: #266 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2021 (recorded 2021–2023).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #402 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Koah appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 9 years beginning in 2014, and has registered 173 births with the name.

Koah across 4 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.

Koah'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 · Boys	#2248 (2014)	#880 (2024)	#880 (2024)	9 of 11	173 (2014–2024)	36 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#741 (2020)	#402 (2025)	#402 (2025)	3 of 6	16 (2020–2025)	9 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#4686 (2019)	#4686 (2019)	#5687 (2023)	2 of 5	7 (2019–2023)	4 (2019)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#266 (2021)	#266 (2021)	#395 (2023)	2 of 3	10 (2021–2023)	7 (2021)

Koah 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 4 regions, from 2014 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #266 in Northern Ireland in 2021.

Koah'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	male	#880	36	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#929	33	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1011	29	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1184	23	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1314	19	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1506	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#266	7	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#402	9	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 2014 and 2025, ranked in 10 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #266, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 36 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 2020, and 10 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.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
9 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
2separate stretches the record falls into2 separate stretches →
2 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#402position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
10 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 6 to 10 years →
36births registered in its largest year, 202425 to 49 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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Kobe · #166, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Kylo · #252, 15y
Aubree · #248, 15y
Ariyah · #288, 15y
Reign · #294, 14y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Cahan · #274, 11y
Aubree · #248, 15y
Zaviyar · #287, 15y
Ariyah · #288, 15y

Koah was ranked #266 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2021. 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.

Koah 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 Koah without appearing here.

Koah moved ahead of

Gustav Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3412 and #2259 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1506 and #3937.
Rodney Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3412 and #3011 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1506 and #3937.
Aria Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3412 and #2445 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1506 and #3411.
Erin Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3412 and #3412 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1506 and #3411.

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 4 regions, from 2014 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #266 in Northern Ireland in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Koah

Koah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Koah across 4 official records

Koah appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 2010s

Names published alongside Koah

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Koah moved ahead of

Koah at a glance

Koah across 4 official records

Koah appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Names published alongside Koah

Koah and the names beside it

Koah moved ahead of