Ruadh

maleStatistical record

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

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

Ruadh: Recorded every year since 2014, its highest recorded position is #187, and it stood at #232 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
17times a registrar ranked it
12years from first to last
#187highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 2018–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2018	#4749
2022	#4001
2024	#5119

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in every year from 2014 to 2025.

In 2024: #187 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #278 among boys in Northern Ireland, #5119 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2014–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2014
First recorded at #609 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 2014 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded2014–2025
Highest recorded position: #187 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2014–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #232 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Ruadh appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 12 years beginning in 2014, and has registered 143 births with the name.

Ruadh 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.

Ruadh'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
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#609 (2014)	#187 (2024)	#232 (2025)	12 of 12	143 (2014–2025)	26 (2024)
England and Wales · Boys	#4749 (2018)	#4001 (2022)	#5119 (2024)	3 of 7	10 (2018–2024)	4 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#249 (2023)	#249 (2023)	#278 (2024)	2 of 2	13 (2023–2024)	7 (2023)

Ruadh 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 3 regions, from 2014 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #187 in Republic of Ireland in 2024.

Ruadh'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	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#278	6	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#249	7	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#232	20	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#187	26	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#268	16	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#225	22	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#296	15	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#496	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#370	10	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#471	7	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#495	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#421	8	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#609	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 2014 and 2025, ranked in 12 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #187, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 26 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 9 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.

Rozalia · #585, 21y
Rua · #192, 17y
Ruadhan · #81, 35y
Ruaidhri · #157, 51y

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.

Blain · #186, 13y
Courteney · #186, 15y
Mirha · #189, 13y
Pol · #189, 12y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Nelia · #187, 11y
Cadain · #186, 10y
Mirha · #189, 13y
Everly · #190, 13y

Ruadh was ranked #187 in Republic of Ireland · Boys 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.

Ruadh 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 Ruadh without appearing here.

Ruadh moved ahead of

Taylor Compare
In 2023 they stood at #496 and #496 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2024 that had become #187 and #785.
Daithi Compare
In 2020 they stood at #496 and #496 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2021 that had become #296 and #755.
Emil Compare
In 2020 they stood at #496 and #459 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2021 that had become #296 and #755.
Theodor Compare
In 2021 they stood at #496 and #459 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2022 that had become #225 and #572.

Moved the opposite way to Ruadh

Aaron Compare
Between 2014 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruadh went from #609 to #232 while Aaron went from #24 to #71.
Adam Compare
Between 2014 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruadh went from #609 to #232 while Adam went from #6 to #20.
Adrian Compare
Between 2014 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruadh went from #609 to #232 while Adrian went from #129 to #348.
Alan Compare
Between 2014 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruadh went from #609 to #232 while Alan went from #94 to #232.

Moved the same way as Ruadh

Albie Compare
Between 2014 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruadh went from #609 to #232 and Albie from #609 to #179.
Archie Compare
Between 2014 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruadh went from #609 to #232 and Archie from #132 to #46.
Arlo Compare
Between 2014 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruadh went from #609 to #232 and Arlo from #364 to #54.
Arthur Compare
Between 2014 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ruadh went from #609 to #232 and Arthur from #136 to #57.

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 3 regions, from 2014 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #187 in Republic of Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ruadh

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Popularity journey

Ruadh across 3 official records

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Ruadh across 3 official records

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Also first recorded in the 2010s

Names published alongside Ruadh

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Ruadh moved ahead of

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