Vega

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Vega: Recorded since 2008, its highest recorded position is #196, reached in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
20times a registrar ranked it
18years from first to last
#196highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#4524
2009	#5556
2011	#5785
2012	#3681
2013	#3536
2014	#3514
2015	#3252
2016	#3609
2017	#3583
2018	#5666
2020	#2615
2021	#2341
2022	#3148
2023	#2927
2024	#4192

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 17 years from 2008 to 2024.

In 2024: #213 among girls in Norway, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4192 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2008–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2008
First recorded at #4524 among girls in England and Wales in 2008 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2024–2025
Highest recorded position: #196 among girls in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 2024–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #196 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Vega appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 15 years beginning in 2008, and has registered 90 births with the name.

Vega 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.

Vega'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	#4524 (2008)	#2341 (2021)	#4192 (2024)	15 of 17	90 (2008–2024)	11 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#896 (2015)	#896 (2015)	#898 (2024)	2 of 10	6 (2015–2024)	3 (2015)
Norway · Girls	#213 (2024)	#196 (2025)	#196 (2025)	2 of 2	45 (2024–2025)	24 (2025)

Vega 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 Vega in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	7	2 of 10	4
2010s	43	8 of 10	5
2020sbusiest	40	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 →

Vega 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 2008 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #196 in Norway in 2025.

Vega'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	#4192	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3252	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#196	24	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#213	21	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
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 2008 and 2025, ranked in 16 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #196, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 24 births, registered in Norway in 2025.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 16 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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
8 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
3separate stretches the record falls into3 separate stretches →
1 yearlongest absence inside the recorded periodA single year missing →
#196position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
16 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 11 to 20 years →
24births registered in its largest year, 2025Under 25 births →

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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Veeran · #2335, 17y
Vegar · #129, 59y
Vegard · #19, 79y

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.

Arla · #196, 18y
Croiadh · #192, 12y
Eire · #192, 21y
Rua · #192, 17y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Arla · #196, 18y
Oliwier · #196, 22y
Matei · #193, 21y
Pola · #199, 22y

Vega was ranked #196 in Norway · Girls in 2025. 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.

Vega 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 Vega without appearing here.

Vega moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5666 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #5581.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #5581.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5666 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #5581.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5666 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Vega

Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #1743.
Freddie Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #3318.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #1785.
Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3514 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #3252 and #2705.

Moved the opposite way to Vega

Karin Compare
Between 2008 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Vega went from #4524 to #2341 while Karin went from #2150 to #3192.
Tyler Compare
Between 2008 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Vega went from #4524 to #2341 while Tyler went from #753 to #5581.

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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2008 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #196 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Vega

Vega at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Vega across 3 official records

Vega by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Vega appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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Vega moved ahead of

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Vega at a glance

Vega across 3 official records

Vega by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Vega appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Vega

Vega and the names beside it

Vega moved ahead of

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