Ailbe

maleStatistical record

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

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

Ailbe: Recorded since 1967, with a gap of 32 years, its highest recorded position is #265, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
59years from first to last
#265highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Ailbe's record

Absent from every published list for 32 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 2007–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#3589
2008	#2507
2009	#2837
2010	#4678
2012	#3416
2013	#3822
2014	#1630
2015	#1673
2016	#1704
2017	#1124
2018	#1235
2019	#1506
2020	#3848
2021	#4789
2022	#3048
2023	#4991
2024	#4270

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 13 of the 59 years from 1967 to 2025.

In 2024: #339 among boys in Northern Ireland, #582 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #4270 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1967–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1967
First recorded at #265 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1967 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1967–2025
Highest recorded position: #265 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1967 (recorded 1967–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Ailbe appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 17 ranked years and 153 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1967.

Ailbe across 3 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.

Ailbe'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
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#265 (1967)	#265 (1967)	#676 (2025)	13 of 59	53 (1967–2025)	9 (2019)
England and Wales · Boys	#3589 (2007)	#1124 (2017)	#4270 (2024)	17 of 18	153 (2007–2024)	25 (2017)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#279 (2017)	#279 (2017)	#339 (2024)	4 of 8	17 (2017–2024)	6 (2017)

Ailbe by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Ailbe in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	17	3 of 10	6
2010sbusiest	116	9 of 10	13
2020s	20	5 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 13 births a year.

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

Ailbe appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1967 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #265 in Republic of Ireland in 1967.

Ailbe'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	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3048	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1506	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1235	21	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1124	25	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1704	14	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1673	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1630	14	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#352	4	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#416	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#279	6	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#582	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#556	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#402	9	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#605	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#720	3	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#265	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1967 and 2025, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #265, first reached in 1967.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 25 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 32 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 49 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Ailah · #2449, 13y
Ailbhe · #44, 59y
Aileen · #81, 62y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, 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.

Aronas · #264, 19y
Coran · #263, 20y
Dominykas · #267, 23y
Gabija · #267, 23y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Malik · #264, 36y
Marzena · #264, 33y
Thuy · #266, 35y
Mike · #263, 51y

Ailbe was ranked #265 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1967. 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.

Ailbe 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 Ailbe without appearing here.

Ailbe moved ahead of

Brent Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1673 and #4747.
Kim Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1673 and #4747.
Brooke Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1630 and #4632.
Ole Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4789 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3048 and #4789.

Moved ahead of Ailbe

Anders Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3848 and #4608 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #4789 and #2301.
Gunnar Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1506 and #2728 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #3848 and #1935.
Daithi Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3048 and #4001 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4991 and #3112.
Matheo Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1506 and #2488 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #3848 and #2076.

Moved the opposite way to Ailbe

Adam Compare
Between 1967 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ailbe went from #265 to #676 while Adam went from #245 to #20.
Alexander Compare
Between 1967 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ailbe went from #265 to #676 while Alexander went from #137 to #55.
Arthur Compare
Between 1967 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ailbe went from #265 to #676 while Arthur went from #110 to #57.
Cian Compare
Between 1967 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ailbe went from #265 to #676 while Cian went from #187 to #33.

Moved the same way as Ailbe

Adrian Compare
Between 1967 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ailbe went from #265 to #676 and Adrian from #65 to #348.
Alan Compare
Between 1967 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ailbe went from #265 to #676 and Alan from #20 to #232.
Andrew Compare
Between 1967 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ailbe went from #265 to #676 and Andrew from #33 to #106.
Anthony Compare
Between 1967 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Ailbe went from #265 to #676 and Anthony from #13 to #135.

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 3 regions, from 1967 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #265 in Republic of Ireland in 1967. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ailbe

Ailbe at a glance

What stands out in Ailbe's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ailbe across 3 official records

Ailbe by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ailbe appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Ailbe at a glance

What stands out in Ailbe's record

Ailbe across 3 official records

Ailbe by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ailbe appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Ailbe

Ailbe and the names beside it

Ailbe moved ahead of

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