Narelle

femaleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
25times a registrar ranked it
67years from first to last
#37highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2018

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
2018	#5666

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 New South Wales, Australia in every year from 1952 to 1974.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1952–2018 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #65 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1952–1974
Highest recorded position: #37 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 1955 (recorded 1952–1974).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2018
Most recently recorded at #5666 among girls in England and Wales, in 2018.
England and Wales · Girls

Narelle appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 1952, and has registered 3,969 births with the name.

Narelle 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.

Narelle'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
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#65 (1952)	#37 (1955)	#87 (1974)	23 of 23	3,969 (1952–1974)	259 (1961)
England and Wales · Girls	#3174 (1997)	#3174 (1997)	#5666 (2018)	2 of 22	7 (1997–2018)	4 (1997)

Narelle by decade in New South Wales, Australia · 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 Narelle in New South Wales, Australia · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950sbusiest	1,637	8 of 10	205
1960s	1,762	10 of 10	176
1970s	570	5 of 10	114

Across New South Wales, Australia · Girls, the 1950s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 205 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1954 and 1955, when recorded births rose by 69, from 180 to 249.

See the names New South Wales, Australiahas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1952 to 2018. Highest recorded position: #37 in New South Wales, Australia in 1955.

Narelle'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
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1974	New South Wales, Australia	female	#87	92	Insufficient	Not yet available
1973	New South Wales, Australia	female	#82	96	Insufficient	Not yet available
1972	New South Wales, Australia	female	#81	119	Insufficient	Not yet available
1971	New South Wales, Australia	female	#72	139	Insufficient	Not yet available
1970	New South Wales, Australia	female	#74	124	Insufficient	Not yet available
1969	New South Wales, Australia	female	#80	111	Insufficient	Not yet available
1968	New South Wales, Australia	female	#66	132	Insufficient	Not yet available
1967	New South Wales, Australia	female	#63	141	Insufficient	Not yet available
1966	New South Wales, Australia	female	#59	142	Insufficient	Not yet available
1965	New South Wales, Australia	female	#62	142	Insufficient	Not yet available
1964	New South Wales, Australia	female	#49	185	Insufficient	Not yet available
1963	New South Wales, Australia	female	#52	191	Insufficient	Not yet available
1962	New South Wales, Australia	female	#44	249	Insufficient	Not yet available
1961	New South Wales, Australia	female	#44	259	Insufficient	Not yet available
1960	New South Wales, Australia	female	#46	210	Insufficient	Not yet available
1959	New South Wales, Australia	female	#42	240	Insufficient	Not yet available
1958	New South Wales, Australia	female	#45	233	Insufficient	Not yet available
1957	New South Wales, Australia	female	#40	240	Insufficient	Not yet available
1956	New South Wales, Australia	female	#41	216	Insufficient	Not yet available
1955	New South Wales, Australia	female	#37	249	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New South Wales, Australia	female	#50	180	Insufficient	Not yet available
1953	New South Wales, Australia	female	#59	152	Insufficient	Not yet available
1952	New South Wales, Australia	female	#65	127	Insufficient	Not yet available

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages

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

Where Narelle is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Narelle, between 1952 and 2018, in 25 of those 67 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
New South Wales, Australia	1952–1974	23	#37 in 1955
England and Wales	1997–2018	2	#3174 in 1997

Its high point came 42 years earlier in New South Wales, Australia (1955) than in England and Wales (1997).

No registrar recorded it for 22 years after 1974; it appears again in 1997.

Narelle was ranked #37 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 1955. 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.

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 2 regions, from 1952 to 2018. Highest recorded position: #37 in New South Wales, Australia in 1955. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Narelle

Narelle at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Narelle across 2 official records

Narelle by decade in New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Popularity data

Where Narelle is officially recorded

Names published alongside Narelle

Narelle at a glance

Narelle across 2 official records

Narelle by decade in New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Names published alongside Narelle