Vada

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Vada: Recorded since 1996, with a gap of 11 years, it reached #421 in 2019, and it stood at #736 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
23times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#421highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Vada's record

Absent from every published list for 11 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1999	#3900
2011	#5785
2013	#5742
2014	#4003
2015	#4103
2016	#4763
2017	#4763
2018	#2499
2019	#2643
2020	#1939
2021	#3192
2022	#2673
2023	#3598
2024	#3695

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 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3695 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 #3795 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 recorded2017–2024
Highest recorded position: #421 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2019 (recorded 2017–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Vada 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 1996, and has registered 91 births with the name.

Vada 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.

Vada'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	#3795 (1996)	#1939 (2020)	#3695 (2024)	15 of 29	91 (1996–2024)	14 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#734 (2017)	#421 (2019)	#736 (2024)	8 of 8	43 (2017–2024)	9 (2019)

Vada 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 Vada in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	6	2 of 10	3
2010s	43	8 of 10	5
2020sbusiest	42	5 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

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

Vada 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: #421 in Republic of Ireland in 2019.

Vada'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	#3695	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2673	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1939	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	7	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#421	9	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	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 15 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #421, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 14 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 11 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2017, and 21 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.

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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.

Charleen · #420, 13y
Adeoluwa · #423, 17y
Aimee-Louise · #419, 17y
Camryn · #423, 16y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Bjorn · #421, 29y
Kaidan · #421, 24y
Taya · #421, 30y
Zeeshan · #421, 29y

Vada was ranked #421 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2019. 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.

Vada 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 Vada without appearing here.

Vada moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1939 and #5493.
Josefine Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4763 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1939 and #5493.
Therese Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4103 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1939 and #5493.
Kristin Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4763 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2499 and #5666.

Moved ahead of Vada

Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1939 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #1785.
Marianne Compare
In 2023 they stood at #559 and #747 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2024 that had become #736 and #441.
Jenny Compare
In 2023 they stood at #555 and #856 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2024 that had become #736 and #631.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #421 in Republic of Ireland in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Vada

Vada at a glance

What stands out in Vada's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Vada across 2 official records

Vada by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Vada 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 Vada

Vada and the names beside it

Vada moved ahead of

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Vada at a glance

What stands out in Vada's record

Vada across 2 official records

Vada by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Vada 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 Vada

Vada and the names beside it

Vada moved ahead of

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