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How popular is the name Niamh?
Births per year, rank history and how many Niamhs are alive today.
Niamh (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 208th in 2025 with 228 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2000, when 1,204 babies were given the name, the 40th most popular that year. It has declined since 2000; the 2025 figure is roughly 19% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 20,000 babies have been named Niamh in England and Wales since 1996.
The Niamh you are most likely to meet is around 26 years old. Half of all Niamhs born in England and Wales are between 14 and 26, and there are at least 23,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 7% chance that at least one of them will be called Niamh.
How many babies are named Niamh each year?
Where does Niamh rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Niamh most popular?
Niamh peaked in 2000, when 1,204 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Niamh?
At least 23,000 people named Niamh born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Niamh?
Most living Niamhs are between 14 and 26; the most common age is about 26.
Is Niamh becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2000 peak.