Wan

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Wan: Recorded since 1996, it reached #1,962 in 2003, and it stood at #5,891 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1962highest recorded position
9groupings 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	#3795
1997	#3824
1998	#3848
1999	#2770
2003	#3594
2004	#4598
2005	#3970
2006	#3116
2007	#4294
2008	#3005
2009	#4564
2010	#4688
2011	#4049
2012	#2969
2013	#5742
2015	#5730
2017	#5765
2018	#3985
2019	#5591
2021	#5581
2023	#5687
2024	#5891

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 22 of the 29 years 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 #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 recorded1997–2023
Highest recorded position: #1962 among boys in England and Wales, in 2003 (recorded 1997–2023).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Wan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 22 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 89 births with the name.

Wan 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.

Wan'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)	#2770 (1999)	#5891 (2024)	22 of 29	89 (1996–2024)	8 (2012)
England and Wales · Boys	#2022 (1997)	#1962 (2003)	#4991 (2023)	11 of 27	42 (1997–2023)	7 (2003)

Wan 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 Wan in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	14	4 of 10	4
2000sbusiest	32	7 of 10	5
2010s	34	8 of 10	4
2020s	9	3 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 5 births a year.

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

Wan 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: #1962 in England and Wales in 2003.

Wan'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	#5891	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	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 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,962, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 8 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

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.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

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

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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.

Abubaker · #1962, 21y
Kasra · #1962, 22y
Nino · #1962, 21y
Alis · #1961, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Abubaker · #1962, 21y
Atilla · #1962, 15y
Nino · #1962, 21y
Alis · #1961, 24y

Wan 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 Wan without appearing here.

Wan moved ahead of

Lene Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4688 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2969 and #5876.
Vicki Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2969 and #5876.
Gail Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4294 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #3005 and #5545.
George Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4598 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #3005 and #5545.

Moved ahead of Wan

Meabh Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #2887.
Hunter Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1962 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #3849 and #1135.
Mathias Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1962 and #2470 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #3849 and #1617.
Filip Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2022 and #2337 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #3134 and #1286.

Moved the opposite way to Wan

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wan went from #3795 to #5891 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wan went from #3795 to #5891 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wan went from #3795 to #5891 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wan went from #3795 to #5891 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Wan

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wan went from #3795 to #5891 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wan went from #3795 to #5891 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wan went from #3795 to #5891 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wan went from #3795 to #5891 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1962 in England and Wales in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Wan

Wan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Wan across 2 official records

Wan by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Wan 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

Wan and the names beside it

Wan moved ahead of

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Wan at a glance

Wan across 2 official records

Wan by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Wan appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Wan and the names beside it

Wan moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Wan

Moved the opposite way to Wan

Moved the same way as Wan