Simran

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Simran: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #166 in 2001, and it stood at #1,262 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#166highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#184
1997	#191
1998	#183
1999	#183
2000	#186
2001	#166
2002	#178
2003	#198
2004	#221
2005	#259
2006	#292
2007	#276
2008	#323
2009	#303
2010	#345
2011	#389
2012	#388
2013	#466
2014	#478
2015	#449
2016	#553
2017	#740
2018	#680
2019	#838
2020	#1065
2021	#1128
2022	#1180
2023	#1135
2024	#1262

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #184 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 recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #166 among girls in England and Wales, in 2001 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1262 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Simran 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 3,935 births with the name.

Simran 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.

Simran'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	#184 (1996)	#166 (2001)	#1262 (2024)	29 of 29	3,935 (1996–2024)	257 (2001)
England and Wales · Boys	#620 (1996)	#620 (1996)	#4023 (2016)	17 of 21	127 (1996–2016)	26 (1996)

Simran 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 Simran in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	943	4 of 10	236
2000sbusiest	1,965	10 of 10	197
2010s	883	10 of 10	88
2020s	144	5 of 10	29

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 197 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2007 and 2008, when recorded births fell by 36, from 175 to 139.

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

Simran appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #166 in England and Wales in 2001.

Simran'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	#1262	26	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1135	29	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1180	28	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1128	30	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1065	31	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#838	44	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#680	59	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#740	54	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#553	76	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#449	96	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#478	90	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#466	90	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#388	121	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#389	120	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#345	133	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#303	153	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#323	139	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#276	175	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#292	158	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#259	173	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#221	204	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#198	234	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1629	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#178	243	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#166	257	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#186	229	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1167	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#183	242	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#183	233	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1055	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#191	228	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#964	15	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#184	240	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#620	26	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.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #166, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 257 births, registered in England and Wales in 2001.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

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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Simone · #40, 62y
Simrat · #1995, 25y
Simrit · #1447, 27y

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.

Torgunn · #166, 33y
Annlaug · #165, 30y
Mildrid · #165, 30y
Rolv · #165, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Kobe · #166, 29y
Kobi · #166, 30y
Ayesha · #165, 33y
Caden · #165, 28y

Simran was ranked #166 in England and Wales · Girls in 2001. 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.

Simran 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 Simran without appearing here.

Simran moved ahead of

Ashleigh Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1180 and #1142 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1135 and #1469.
Courtney Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1065 and #1065 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1128 and #1454.
Jenna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1128 and #1039 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1180 and #1452.
Nicola Compare
In 2017 they stood at #740 and #715 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #680 and #843.

Moved ahead of Simran

Ronny Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1629 and #1962 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3009 and #906.
Filip Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1629 and #1771 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3009 and #1160.
Mathias Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1629 and #2470 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3009 and #1160.
Henrik Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3009 and #3651 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #3849 and #2174.

Moved the opposite way to Simran

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Simran went from #184 to #1262 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Simran went from #184 to #1262 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Simran went from #184 to #1262 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Simran went from #184 to #1262 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Simran

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Simran went from #184 to #1262 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Simran went from #184 to #1262 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Simran went from #184 to #1262 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Simran went from #184 to #1262 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #166 in England and Wales in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Simran

Simran at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Simran across 2 official records

Simran by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Simran appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Simran

Simran and the names beside it

Simran moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Simran

Moved the opposite way to Simran

Moved the same way as Simran

Simran at a glance

Simran across 2 official records

Simran by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Simran 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 Simran

Simran and the names beside it

Simran moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Simran

Moved the opposite way to Simran

Moved the same way as Simran