Zowie

femaleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
8times a registrar ranked it
34years from first to last
#488highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2020

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#3174
1999	#1970
2000	#2746
2002	#4137
2020	#5493

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 6 of the 25 years from 1996 to 2020.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1987–2020 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1987
First recorded at #488 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1987 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1987–1993
Highest recorded position: #488 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1987 (recorded 1987–1993).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2020
Most recently recorded at #5493 among girls in England and Wales, in 2020.
England and Wales · Girls

Zowie appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 6 ranked years and 30 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1987.

Zowie 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.

Zowie'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	#2096 (1996)	#1970 (1999)	#5493 (2020)	6 of 25	30 (1996–2020)	8 (1999)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#488 (1987)	#488 (1987)	#516 (1993)	2 of 7	6 (1987–1993)	3 (1987)

Zowie 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 Zowie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	19	3 of 10	6
2000s	8	2 of 10	4
2020s	3	1 of 10	3

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1987 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #488 in Republic of Ireland in 1987.

Zowie'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
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#488	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.

Where Zowie is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Zowie, between 1987 and 2020, in 8 of those 34 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1987–1993	2	#488 in 1987
England and Wales	1996–2020	6	#1970 in 1999

Its high point came 12 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1987) than in England and Wales (1999).

No registrar recorded it for 17 years after 2002; it appears again in 2020.

Zowie was ranked #488 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1987. 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.

Alannah#488
Amiee#488
Angeline#488
Anneka#488

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 1987 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #488 in Republic of Ireland in 1987. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Zowie

Zowie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zowie across 2 official records

Zowie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Where Zowie is officially recorded

Names published alongside Zowie

Zowie at a glance

Zowie across 2 official records

Zowie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Names published alongside Zowie