Nawal

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Nawal: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #620 in 2002, and it stood at #1,302 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#620highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1914
1997	#2411
1998	#1165
1999	#3225
2000	#1095
2001	#1238
2002	#1245
2003	#909
2004	#1106
2005	#890
2006	#976
2007	#942
2008	#1034
2009	#1105
2010	#946
2011	#1438
2012	#1387
2013	#1128
2014	#1628
2015	#1405
2016	#1416
2017	#1512
2018	#1887
2019	#1854
2020	#1449
2021	#1785
2022	#2178
2023	#1469
2024	#1302

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 1996 to 2024.

In 2012: #907 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1387 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1914 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2002–2012
Highest recorded position: #620 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2002 (recorded 2002–2012).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1302 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Nawal appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 603 births with the name.

Nawal 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.

Nawal'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 · Girls	#1914 (1996)	#890 (2005)	#1302 (2024)	29 of 29	603 (1996–2024)	36 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#620 (2002)	#620 (2002)	#907 (2012)	2 of 11	6 (2002–2012)	3 (2002)

Nawal 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 Nawal in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	35	4 of 10	9
2000sbusiest	247	10 of 10	25
2010s	226	10 of 10	23
2020s	95	5 of 10	19

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 25 births a year.

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

Nawal 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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #620 in Republic of Ireland in 2002.

Nawal'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	#1302	25	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1469	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2178	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1785	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1449	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1854	15	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1887	15	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1512	21	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1416	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1405	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1128	31	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1387	23	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1438	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#946	36	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1105	28	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1034	29	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#942	32	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#976	29	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#890	31	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1106	21	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#909	27	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1245	16	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1238	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1095	18	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1165	17	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1914	8	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #620, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 36 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 6 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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Nawfal · #3134, 10y
Naya · #333, 27y

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.

Anjolaoluwa · #620, 26y
Mahira · #620, 29y
Mirabel · #620, 24y
Oluwatoni · #620, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aderinsola · #620, 15y
Alexandrea · #620, 14y
Anjolaoluwa · #620, 26y
Geena · #620, 14y

Nawal was ranked #620 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2002. 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.

Nawal 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 Nawal without appearing here.

Nawal moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 1999 they stood at #3225 and #2189 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1095 and #3247.
Helene Compare
In 1999 they stood at #3225 and #2444 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1095 and #2746.
Jodie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2178 and #1948 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1469 and #2927.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1914 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #2411 and #3824.

Moved ahead of Nawal

Alma Compare
In 2010 they stood at #946 and #1040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1438 and #702.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1512 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1887 and #1436.
Audrey Compare
In 2003 they stood at #909 and #1325 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1106 and #736.
Mila Compare
In 2005 they stood at #890 and #931 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #976 and #649.

Moved the same way as Nawal

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nawal went from #2411 to #1302 and Blake from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nawal went from #2411 to #1302 and Ezra from #3824 to #1302.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nawal went from #3225 to #1302 and Frida from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nawal went from #3225 to #1302 and Meabh from #3225 to #952.

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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #620 in Republic of Ireland in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Nawal across 2 official records

Nawal by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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