Mehtab

maleStatistical record

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

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

Mehtab: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #773, reached in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
23times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#773highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2017–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2017	#4763
2023	#2927
2024	#2574

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 boys in England and Wales in 20 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2863 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #773 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2574 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Mehtab appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 20 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 189 births with the name.

Mehtab 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.

Mehtab'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	#2863 (1996)	#773 (2024)	#773 (2024)	20 of 29	189 (1996–2024)	44 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#4763 (2017)	#2574 (2024)	#2574 (2024)	3 of 8	22 (2017–2024)	10 (2024)

Mehtab by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Mehtab in England and Wales · Boys, 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	54	10 of 10	5
2020sbusiest	115	5 of 10	23

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 23 births a year.

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

Mehtab 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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #773 in England and Wales in 2024.

Mehtab'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	#2574	10	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#773	44	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#890	35	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1609	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2125	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2728	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2324	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	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 1996 and 2024, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #773, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 44 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

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.

Mehrish · #2927, 10y
Mehtaab · #2325, 10y
Mehwish · #1802, 28y
Mei · #871, 29y

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.

Evie-May · #779, 23y
Umaiza · #767, 21y
Haadi · #784, 22y
Naveed · #761, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Essa · #773, 27y
Ranveer · #774, 27y
Sunday · #774, 11y
Musab · #771, 29y

Mehtab was ranked #773 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. 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.

Mehtab 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 Mehtab without appearing here.

Mehtab moved ahead of

Brent Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3959 and #3412 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1935 and #4608.
Kelly Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3959 and #3011 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2728 and #4702.
Willow Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3959 and #2445 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2728 and #4702.
Glenn Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3959 and #3412 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1935 and #3848.

Moved the opposite way to Mehtab

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mehtab went from #2863 to #773 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mehtab went from #2863 to #773 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mehtab went from #2863 to #773 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mehtab went from #2863 to #773 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Mehtab

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mehtab went from #2863 to #773 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mehtab went from #2863 to #773 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mehtab went from #2863 to #773 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mehtab went from #2863 to #773 and Archie from #192 to #10.

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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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #773 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mehtab

Mehtab at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mehtab across 2 official records

Mehtab by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Mehtab appears in

Popularity data

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Mehtab at a glance

Mehtab across 2 official records

Mehtab by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Mehtab appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Mehtab

Mehtab and the names beside it

Mehtab moved ahead of

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