Naimh

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Naimh: Recorded since 1968, with a gap of 12 years, it reached #319 in 1998, and it was last ranked in 2003.

3registrars recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
36years from first to last
#319highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Naimh's record

Absent from every published list for 12 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2003

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
2001	#2783
2003	#4373

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 Republic of Ireland in 8 of the 34 years from 1968 to 2001.

In 2001: #441 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2783 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1968–2003 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1968
First recorded at #357 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1968 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1968–2001
Highest recorded position: #319 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1998 (recorded 1968–2001).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2003
Most recently recorded at #4373 among girls in England and Wales, in 2003.
England and Wales · Girls

Naimh appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 8 years beginning in 1968, and has registered 34 births with the name.

Naimh 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.

Naimh'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#357 (1968)	#319 (1998)	#441 (2001)	8 of 34	34 (1968–2001)	7 (1998)
England and Wales · Girls	#3174 (1997)	#2783 (2001)	#4373 (2003)	3 of 7	12 (1997–2003)	5 (2001)

Naimh by decade in Republic of Ireland · 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 Naimh in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	4	1 of 10	4
1970s	9	3 of 10	3
1990s	10	2 of 10	5
2000s	11	2 of 10	6

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Naimh 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 3 regions, from 1968 to 2003. Highest recorded position: #319 in Republic of Ireland in 1998.

Naimh'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
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	5	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#378	6	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#319	7	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#522	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	3	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#447	3	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#357	4	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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1968 and 2003, ranked in 10 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #319, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 7 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1998.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 12 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 30 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 →
2 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
8separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
12 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period10 to 19 years missing →
#4,373position in 2003, its most recent recorded year
30 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 21 to 40 years →
7births registered in its largest year, 1998Under 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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Dallan · #317, 11y
Kirstyn · #316, 13y
Neamh · #316, 8y
Titas · #315, 15y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Iryna · #319, 25y
Armin · #317, 43y
Bairbre · #321, 19y
Yngvild · #317, 34y

Naimh was ranked #319 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1998. 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.

Naimh 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 Naimh without appearing here.

Naimh moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 1997 they stood at #515 and #319 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1998 that had become #319 and #498.
Janice Compare
In 1997 they stood at #515 and #217 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1998 that had become #319 and #498.
Katrina Compare
In 1999 they stood at #515 and #284 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2000 that had become #378 and #536.
Marianne Compare
In 1999 they stood at #515 and #365 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2000 that had become #378 and #536.

Moved ahead of Naimh

Natalie Compare
In 1969 they stood at #357 and #401 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1970 that had become #447 and #193.
Zoe Compare
In 1969 they stood at #357 and #401 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1970 that had become #447 and #307.
Lara Compare
In 1969 they stood at #357 and #401 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1970 that had become #447 and #396.
Hayley Compare
In 1971 they stood at #357 and #401 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1972 that had become #471 and #471.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 3 regions, from 1968 to 2003. Highest recorded position: #319 in Republic of Ireland in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Naimh

Naimh at a glance

What stands out in Naimh's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Naimh across 2 official records

Naimh by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Naimh appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Naimh

Naimh and the names beside it

Naimh moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Naimh

Naimh at a glance

What stands out in Naimh's record

Naimh across 2 official records

Naimh by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Naimh appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Naimh

Naimh and the names beside it

Naimh moved ahead of

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