Rabab

maleStatistical record

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

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

Rabab: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #997, reached in 2025.

1registrar recorded it
17times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#997highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
2002	#4137
2005	#4798
2006	#5061
2008	#5545
2009	#5556
2010	#4012
2011	#5785
2016	#5785
2018	#4684
2021	#4634
2022	#2325
2023	#1863
2024	#1230
2025	#997

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 15 of the 29 years from 1997 to 2025.

Official data for England and Wales, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3824 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2025
Highest recorded position: #997 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025 (recorded 1997–2025).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #997 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Rabab appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 15 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 124 births with the name.

Rabab 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.

Rabab'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	#3824 (1997)	#997 (2025)	#997 (2025)	15 of 29	124 (1997–2025)	34 (2025)
England and Wales · Boys	#2671 (2024)	#1406 (2025)	#1406 (2025)	2 of 2	27 (2024–2025)	19 (2025)

Rabab 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 Rabab in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	15	5 of 10	3
2010s	15	4 of 10	4
2020sbusiest	91	5 of 10	18

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 18 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Rabab appears in

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

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #997 in England and Wales in 2025.

Rabab'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#997	34	High	Verified
2025	England and Wales	male	#1406	19	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#1230	27	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1863	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2325	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 15 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #997, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 34 births, registered in England and Wales in 2025.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

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 →
5 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
7separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
4 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#997position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
34births registered in its largest year, 202525 to 49 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.

Quinton · #392, 29y
Raahi · #3035, 10y
Rabia · #326, 45y
Rabiya · #1755, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Jayden-James · #996, 19y
Nirvaan · #1000, 14y
Alyaan · #993, 19y
Ada-Rose · #992, 13y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Nara · #997, 21y
Gurveer · #998, 30y
Kailan · #996, 30y
Liyah · #998, 26y

Rabab was ranked #997 in England and Wales · Girls in 2025. 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.

Aaliya#997
Alexis#997
Amna#997
Ava-Grace#997
Aairah#1028
Alexia#1028
Amarachi#1028
Anayat#1028

Rabab 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 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rabab without appearing here.

Rabab moved ahead of

Helene
In 2024 they stood at #4684 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2025 that had become #997 and #5927.
Kristine
In 2023 they stood at #5785 and #5785 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1230 and #5891.
Belinda
In 2022 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1863 and #5687.
Tracey
In 2022 they stood at #4684 and #3985 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1863 and #5687.

Moved the opposite way to Rabab

Abigail
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabab went from #3824 to #997 while Abigail went from #24 to #171.
Aimee
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabab went from #3824 to #997 while Aimee went from #61 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabab went from #3824 to #997 while Aisling went from #496 to #1892.
Alex
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabab went from #3824 to #997 while Alex went from #179 to #2605.

Moved the same way as Rabab

Ada
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabab went from #3824 to #997 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabab went from #3824 to #997 and Alma from #2411 to #211.
Amalie
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabab went from #3824 to #997 and Amalie from #3824 to #894.
Amelia
Between 1997 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabab went from #3824 to #997 and Amelia from #49 to #3.

What is known about Rabab

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 1 official registrar, 1997–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #997 in England and Wales in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rabab

Rabab at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rabab across 2 official records

Rabab by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rabab appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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What is known about Rabab

Rabab at a glance

Rabab across 2 official records

Rabab by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rabab 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 Rabab

Rabab and the names beside it

Rabab moved ahead of

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