Meadow

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Meadow: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #159, and it stood at #213 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
53times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#159highest recorded position
11groupings 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	#3795
1998	#3848
2000	#3247
2001	#1520
2002	#1104
2003	#1026
2004	#1459
2005	#790
2006	#855
2007	#1073
2008	#753
2009	#897
2010	#747
2011	#804
2012	#738
2013	#733
2014	#563
2015	#512
2016	#495
2017	#541
2018	#378
2019	#402
2020	#390
2021	#348
2022	#275
2023	#304
2024	#291

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 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #164 among girls in Scotland, #192 among girls in Northern Ireland, #291 among girls in England and Wales, #294 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 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 recorded2014–2024
Highest recorded position: #159 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2014–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #213 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Meadow appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,719 births with the name.

Meadow 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.

Meadow'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	#3795 (1996)	#275 (2022)	#291 (2024)	27 of 29	1,719 (1996–2024)	165 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#655 (2003)	#213 (2025)	#213 (2025)	16 of 23	124 (2003–2025)	20 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2014)	#159 (2023)	#192 (2024)	9 of 11	50 (2014–2024)	12 (2023)

Meadow 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 Meadow in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	6	2 of 10	3
2000s	254	10 of 10	25
2010s	754	10 of 10	75
2020sbusiest	705	5 of 10	141

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 141 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2017 and 2018, when recorded births rose by 40, from 80 to 120.

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

Meadow 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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #159 in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Meadow'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	#291	153	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#304	143	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#275	165	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#348	133	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#390	111	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#402	104	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#378	120	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#541	80	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#495	88	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#512	84	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#563	75	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#733	54	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#738	54	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#804	46	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#747	49	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#897	37	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#753	46	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1073	27	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#855	35	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#790	36	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1459	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1026	23	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1104	19	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1520	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#192	9	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#159	12	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#212	8	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#434	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#296	5	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#213	20	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#294	14	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#279	14	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	7	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#495	7	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#419	10	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#431	10	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#510	8	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#164	25	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 1996 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #159, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 165 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

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

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 28 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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Meaghan · #227, 25y

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.

Judah · #159, 29y
Josie · #160, 30y
Lily-Rose · #160, 29y
Macy · #161, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Judah · #159, 29y
Josie · #160, 30y
Lily-Rose · #160, 29y
Liberty · #157, 29y

Meadow was ranked #159 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2023. 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.

Meadow 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 Meadow without appearing here.

Meadow moved ahead of

Josefine Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3848 and #3848 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1026 and #4373.
Francis Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3795 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #790 and #3970.
Cecilie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3848 and #3848 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1104 and #4137.
Teddy Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3795 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1104 and #4137.

Moved ahead of Meadow

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #804 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #738 and #284.
Ivy Compare
In 2011 they stood at #510 and #937 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #768 and #371.
Aria Compare
In 2011 they stood at #510 and #695 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #768 and #510.

Moved the opposite way to Meadow

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meadow went from #3795 to #291 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meadow went from #3795 to #291 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meadow went from #3795 to #291 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meadow went from #3795 to #291 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Meadow

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meadow went from #3795 to #291 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meadow went from #3795 to #291 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meadow went from #3795 to #291 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meadow went from #3795 to #291 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #159 in Northern Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Meadow

Meadow at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Meadow across 3 official records

Meadow by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Meadow 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 Meadow

Meadow and the names beside it

Meadow moved ahead of

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Meadow at a glance

Meadow across 3 official records

Meadow by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Meadow 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 Meadow

Meadow and the names beside it

Meadow moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Meadow

Moved the opposite way to Meadow

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