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.

Narelle: Recorded since 1952, with a gap of 22 years, it reached #37 in 1955, and it was last ranked in 2018.

2registrars recorded it
25times a registrar ranked it
67years from first to last
#37highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Narelle's record

Absent from every published list for 22 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

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 →

Narelle 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 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.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1952 and 2018, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #37, first reached in 1955.

It held a top-100 place in 23 years, 23 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 259 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1961.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 22 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 45 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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Narin · #1668, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Saga · #33, 28y
Maree · #42, 23y
Taylah · #30, 27y
Hennie · #20, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Alina · #37, 63y
Leslie · #37, 67y
Russell · #37, 70y
Shelley · #37, 53y

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.

Narelle 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 Narelle without appearing here.

Narelle moved ahead of

Yvonne Compare
In 1953 they stood at #59 and #54 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1954 that had become #50 and #73.
Lynette Compare
In 1969 they stood at #80 and #72 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1970 that had become #74 and #94.
Ann Compare
In 1967 they stood at #63 and #61 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1968 that had become #66 and #83.
Gail Compare
In 1960 they stood at #46 and #45 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1961 that had become #44 and #54.

Moved ahead of Narelle

Alison Compare
In 1964 they stood at #49 and #59 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1965 that had become #62 and #27.
Rachel Compare
In 1968 they stood at #66 and #75 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1969 that had become #80 and #47.
Danielle Compare
In 1968 they stood at #66 and #72 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1969 that had become #80 and #58.
Donna Compare
In 1958 they stood at #45 and #48 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1959 that had become #42 and #20.

Moved the opposite way to Narelle

Donna Compare
Between 1953 and 1974 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Narelle went from #59 to #87 while Donna went from #91 to #33.
Amanda Compare
Between 1954 and 1974 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Narelle went from #50 to #87 while Amanda went from #84 to #8.
Angela Compare
Between 1955 and 1974 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Narelle went from #37 to #87 while Angela went from #100 to #13.
Fiona Compare
Between 1956 and 1974 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Narelle went from #41 to #87 while Fiona went from #87 to #17.

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 stands out in Narelle's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Narelle across 2 official records

Narelle by decade in New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Narelle appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Narelle

Narelle and the names beside it

Narelle moved ahead of

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Narelle at a glance

What stands out in Narelle's record

Narelle across 2 official records

Narelle by decade in New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Narelle appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Narelle

Narelle and the names beside it

Narelle moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Narelle

Moved the opposite way to Narelle