Uma

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Uma: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #834 in 2020, and it stood at #1,262 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#834highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1914
1997	#1666
1998	#1211
1999	#1261
2000	#1250
2001	#1107
2002	#1245
2003	#1472
2004	#1106
2005	#1045
2006	#1201
2007	#987
2008	#1447
2009	#1055
2010	#1653
2011	#1327
2012	#1342
2013	#1324
2014	#1411
2015	#1240
2016	#1472
2017	#1512
2018	#1170
2019	#1349
2020	#1939
2021	#1351
2022	#1685
2023	#1469
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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2020: #834 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1939 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1914 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 recorded2011–2020
Highest recorded position: #834 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2011–2020).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1262 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Uma 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 592 births with the name.

Uma 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.

Uma'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	#1914 (1996)	#987 (2007)	#1262 (2024)	29 of 29	592 (1996–2024)	30 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#937 (2011)	#834 (2020)	#834 (2020)	2 of 10	6 (2011–2020)	3 (2011)

Uma 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 Uma in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	49	4 of 10	12
2000s	209	10 of 10	21
2010sbusiest	233	10 of 10	23
2020s	101	5 of 10	20

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 23 births a year.

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

Uma 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #834 in Republic of Ireland in 2020.

Uma'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	#1469	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1685	17	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1351	23	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1939	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1349	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1170	29	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1512	21	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1472	22	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1240	27	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1411	22	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1324	25	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1342	24	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1327	23	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1653	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1055	30	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1447	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#987	30	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1201	22	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1045	24	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1106	21	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1245	16	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1250	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1261	15	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1211	16	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1666	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1914	8	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #834, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 30 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 15 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.

Ulrikke · #189, 42y
Ultan · #146, 61y
Umaima · #886, 24y
Umaimah · #1184, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Carlotta · #834, 29y
Janvi · #834, 28y
Lilliana · #834, 27y
Samaira · #834, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aiya · #834, 23y
Carlotta · #834, 29y
Janvi · #834, 28y
Lilliana · #834, 27y

Uma was ranked #834 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2020. 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.

Uma 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 Uma without appearing here.

Uma moved ahead of

Susan Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1512 and #1512 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1170 and #3518.
Rachael Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1939 and #1939 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1351 and #3519.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1914 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1666 and #3824.
Karen Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1939 and #1773 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1351 and #3192.

Moved ahead of Uma

Aria Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1055 and #1248 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1653 and #773.
Harper Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1055 and #1171 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1653 and #930.
Mila Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1245 and #1442 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1472 and #799.
Alma Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1055 and #1105 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1653 and #1040.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #834 in Republic of Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Uma

Uma at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Uma across 2 official records

Uma by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Uma appears in

Popularity data

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Uma

Uma and the names beside it

Uma moved ahead of

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Uma at a glance

Uma across 2 official records

Uma by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Uma 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 Uma

Uma and the names beside it

Uma moved ahead of

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