Neamh

femaleStatistical record

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

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

3registrars recorded it
11times a registrar ranked it
11years from first to last
#316highest recorded position
1grouping it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2005

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3142
1999	#3900
2000	#2416
2001	#2783
2004	#4598
2005	#4798

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 England and Wales in 6 of the 8 years from 1998 to 2005.

In 2008: #439 among girls in Northern Ireland, #862 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1998–2008 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3142 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2004–2008
Highest recorded position: #316 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2004 (recorded 2004–2008).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2008
Most recently recorded at #439 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2008.
Northern Ireland · Girls

Neamh appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 6 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 24 births with the name.

Neamh across 3 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.

Neamh'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	#3142 (1998)	#2416 (2000)	#4798 (2005)	6 of 8	24 (1998–2005)	6 (2000)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#559 (2003)	#559 (2003)	#862 (2008)	2 of 6	7 (2003–2008)	4 (2003)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#316 (2004)	#316 (2004)	#439 (2008)	3 of 5	10 (2004–2008)	4 (2004)

Neamh appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Names recorded by exactly 3 registrars

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2008. Highest recorded position: #316 in Northern Ireland in 2004.

Neamh'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
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#377	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#316	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	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 1998 and 2008, ranked in 8 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #316, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 6 births, registered in England and Wales in 2000.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, 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.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
4 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
3separate stretches the record falls into3 separate stretches →
2 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#439position in 2008, its most recent recorded year
6 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 6 to 10 years →
6births registered in its largest year, 2000Under 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.

Kirstyn · #316, 13y
Dallan · #317, 11y
Naimh · #319, 10y
Meara · #328, 8y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Antonella · #316, 26y
Aysha · #316, 29y
Casie · #316, 19y
Cate · #316, 18y

Neamh was ranked #316 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2004. 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.

Neamh 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 Neamh without appearing here.

Moved ahead of Neamh

Amalie Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2783 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #4598 and #985.

What's not yet available

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2008. Highest recorded position: #316 in Northern Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Neamh

Neamh at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Neamh across 3 official records

Neamh appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Neamh

Neamh and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Neamh

Neamh at a glance

Neamh across 3 official records

Neamh appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Neamh

Neamh and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Neamh