Rioghnach

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rioghnach: 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
19times a registrar ranked it
32years from first to last
#150highest recorded position

Region

Rising

among girls in Northern Ireland · 2000–2024

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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Northern Ireland · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#348
2003	#284
2004	#372
2006	#384
2007	#413
2008	#439
2012	#451
2015	#426
2016	#202
2017	#239
2018	#273
2019	#213
2020	#178
2021	#181
2022	#201
2023	#193
2024	#150

VerifiedSource: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names.Confidence: high.

See all Northern Ireland names · Source: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names

What the data shows

RisingNorthern Ireland · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Northern Ireland in 17 of the 25 years from 2000 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1993–2024 · NISRA. Data sources

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

Popularity journey

First recorded1993
First recorded at #448 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1993 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded2000–2024
Highest recorded position: #150 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2000–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #150 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2024.
Northern Ireland · Girls

Rioghnach appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Northern Ireland · Girls, with 17 ranked years and 108 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1993.

Rioghnach 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.

Rioghnach'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
Northern Ireland · Girls	#348 (2000)	#150 (2024)	#150 (2024)	17 of 25	108 (2000–2024)	13 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#448 (1993)	#448 (1993)	#876 (2014)	2 of 22	7 (1993–2014)	4 (1993)

Rioghnach by decade in Northern Ireland · 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 Rioghnach in Northern Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	19	6 of 10	3
2010s	37	6 of 10	6
2020sbusiest	52	5 of 10	10

Across Northern Ireland · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names Northern Ireland has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1993 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #150 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Rioghnach'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	Northern Ireland	female	#150	13	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#193	9	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#201	9	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#181	11	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#178	10	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#213	8	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#273	6	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#239	7	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#202	10	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#451	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#284	4	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#348	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#448	4	High	Verified

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.

Where Rioghnach is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Rioghnach, between 1993 and 2024, in 19 of those 32 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.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1993–2014	2	#448 in 1993
Northern Ireland	2000–2024	17	#150 in 2024

Its high point came 31 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1993) than in Northern Ireland (2024).

No registrar recorded it for 6 years after 1993; it appears again in 2000.

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

Rioghnach was ranked #150 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2024. 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.

Aoibhe#150
Eleanor#150
Ellen#150
Farrah#150
Beth#161
Fianna#161
Kaia#161
Lexi#161

What is known about Rioghnach

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1993–2024.
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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1993 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #150 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Rioghnach

Rioghnach at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rioghnach across 2 official records

Rioghnach by decade in Northern Ireland · Girls

Popularity data

Where Rioghnach is officially recorded

Names published alongside Rioghnach

What is known about Rioghnach

Rioghnach at a glance

Rioghnach across 2 official records

Rioghnach by decade in Northern Ireland · Girls

Names published alongside Rioghnach