Most recorded names in Northern Ireland

The names Northern Ireland has registered the most births with, added up across the 28 years it has published counts, 1997–2024. This is a different question from which names ranked highest, and often a different answer: a name given steadily for decades can out-total one that reached number one for three years.

Every figure comes from Northern Ireland alone and is never set against another registrar — birth counts only mean the same thing inside the list that produced them. A name is counted only in the years this list recorded it, and every published list has a cut-off, so a total is the births this registrar published, not every baby ever given the name. A name that has only appeared recently cannot lead a cumulative list.

See Northern Ireland's most recent published ranking →