Meerab

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Meerab: Recorded every year since 2004, its highest recorded position is #962, and it stood at #980 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#962highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2004–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#4598
2005	#2970
2006	#2137
2007	#2410
2008	#1914
2009	#1365
2010	#1653
2011	#1374
2012	#2095
2013	#1433
2014	#1702
2015	#1204
2016	#994
2017	#1021
2018	#1526
2019	#1095
2020	#1200
2021	#2201
2022	#2673
2023	#962
2024	#980

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 every year from 2004 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2004–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2004
First recorded at #4598 among girls in England and Wales in 2004 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2004–2024
Highest recorded position: #962 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 2004–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #980 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Meerab 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 Meerab in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	62	6 of 10	10
2010sbusiest	241	10 of 10	24
2020s	120	5 of 10	24

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 24 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births rose by 27, from 9 to 36.

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

Meerab appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #962 in England and Wales in 2023.

Meerab'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	#980	36	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#962	36	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2673	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1200	27	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1095	31	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1526	20	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1021	35	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#994	36	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1204	28	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1702	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1433	22	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2095	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1374	22	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1653	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1365	21	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1914	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2004 and 2024, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #962, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 36 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
21 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#980position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
36births registered in its largest year, 201625 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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Meera · #536, 29y
Meg · #269, 29y
Megan · #3, 68y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Aneira · #962, 24y
Nevaeh-Rose · #963, 16y
Angad · #965, 23y
Duke · #959, 26y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Nevaeh-Rose · #963, 16y
Harvey-Lee · #954, 22y
Lilly-Grace · #973, 19y
Trixie · #949, 23y

Meerab was ranked #962 in England and Wales · 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.

Meerab 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 Meerab without appearing here.

Meerab moved ahead of

Hennie Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4598 and #4598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1702 and #5691.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2095 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1433 and #4739.
Dianne Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2970 and #2970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2137 and #5061.
Luca Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2673 and #2673 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #962 and #3598.

Moved ahead of Meerab

Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1204 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #994 and #768.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1021 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1526 and #1436.
Meabh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #962 and #1288 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #980 and #952.

Moved the opposite way to Meerab

Abigail Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meerab went from #4598 to #980 while Abigail went from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meerab went from #4598 to #980 while Aimee went from #47 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meerab went from #4598 to #980 while Aisling went from #866 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meerab went from #4598 to #980 while Alex went from #199 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Meerab

Ada Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meerab went from #4598 to #980 and Ada from #1617 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meerab went from #4598 to #980 and Alma from #1535 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meerab went from #4598 to #980 and Amelia from #18 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Meerab went from #4598 to #980 and Aria from #1715 to #35.

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #962 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Meerab

Meerab at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Meerab by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Meerab at a glance

Meerab by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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