Xanthe

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Xanthe: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #516 in 2005, and it stood at #736 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#516highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1997	#820
1998	#1211
1999	#1107
2000	#930
2001	#962
2002	#962
2003	#1026
2004	#1209
2005	#516
2006	#571
2007	#615
2008	#779
2009	#664
2010	#567
2011	#749
2012	#624
2013	#802
2014	#750
2015	#731
2016	#638
2017	#785
2018	#657
2019	#796
2020	#894
2021	#957
2022	#982
2023	#851
2024	#736

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.

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

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1168 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: #516 among girls in England and Wales, in 2005 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #736 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Xanthe 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 Xanthe in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	77	4 of 10	19
2000s	392	10 of 10	39
2010sbusiest	565	10 of 10	57
2020s	204	5 of 10	41

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 57 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2004 and 2005, when recorded births rose by 47, from 19 to 66.

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

Xanthe 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: #516 in England and Wales in 2005.

Xanthe'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	#736	51	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#851	42	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#982	35	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#957	36	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#894	40	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#796	47	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#657	61	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#785	50	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#638	66	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#731	54	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#750	52	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#802	48	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#624	67	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#749	50	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#567	70	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#664	55	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#779	44	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#615	57	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#571	60	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#516	66	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1209	19	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1026	23	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#962	23	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#962	22	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#930	23	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1211	16	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#820	27	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1168	16	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 #516, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 70 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#736position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
70births registered in its largest year, 201050 to 99 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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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.

Hettie · #517, 28y
Braydon · #518, 29y
Farhana · #520, 25y
Saarah · #512, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Amee · #516, 14y
Katey · #516, 20y
Leonna · #516, 13y
Maryanne · #516, 30y

Xanthe was ranked #516 in England and Wales · Girls in 2005. 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.

Xanthe 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 Xanthe without appearing here.

Xanthe moved ahead of

Bernadette Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1209 and #1209 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #516 and #1934.
Tracey Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1209 and #1072 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #516 and #1500.
Helene Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1168 and #1168 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #820 and #1802.
Kim Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1209 and #985 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #516 and #1295.

Moved ahead of Xanthe

Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #567 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #749 and #261.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #796 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #894 and #460.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #749 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #624 and #284.
Olive Compare
In 2007 they stood at #615 and #623 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #779 and #445.

Moved the opposite way to Xanthe

Finlay Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Xanthe went from #1168 to #657 while Finlay went from #1646 to #4684.
Helene Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Xanthe went from #1168 to #657 while Helene went from #1168 to #4684.
Jayden Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Xanthe went from #1168 to #657 while Jayden went from #2350 to #5666.
Kristy Compare
Between 1996 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Xanthe went from #1168 to #657 while Kristy went from #620 to #5666.

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Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #516 in England and Wales in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Xanthe

Xanthe at a glance

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Popularity journey

Xanthe by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Xanthe at a glance

Xanthe by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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