Boris

maleStatistical record

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

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

Boris: Recorded since 1969, it reached #374 in 2021, and it stood at #1,595 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
60times a registrar ranked it
56years from first to last
#374highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020
1997	#2022
1998	#1642
1999	#1850
2000	#1330
2001	#1746
2002	#1253
2003	#1326
2004	#999
2005	#1135
2006	#1048
2007	#1201
2008	#964
2009	#1265
2010	#854
2011	#1024
2012	#901
2013	#804
2014	#744
2015	#927
2016	#818
2017	#906
2018	#721
2019	#798
2020	#745
2021	#815
2022	#1029
2023	#1042
2024	#1595

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 24 of the 53 years from 1969 to 2021.

In 2021: #374 among boys in Northern Ireland, #460 among boys in Norway, #815 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1969–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1969
First recorded at #402 among boys in Norway in 1969 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded2013–2021
Highest recorded position: #374 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2021 (recorded 2013–2021).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1595 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Boris appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 707 births registered; the earliest is Norway · Boys, from 1969.

Boris across 4 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.

Boris'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
Norway · Boys	#402 (1969)	#389 (1978)	#460 (2021)	24 of 53	142 (1969–2021)	11 (1988)
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#721 (2018)	#1595 (2024)	29 of 29	707 (1996–2024)	47 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#393 (2002)	#393 (2002)	#601 (2016)	4 of 15	15 (2002–2016)	4 (2002)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#398 (2013)	#374 (2021)	#374 (2021)	3 of 9	10 (2013–2021)	4 (2021)

Boris 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 Boris in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	23	4 of 10	6
2000s	165	10 of 10	17
2010sbusiest	365	10 of 10	37
2020s	154	5 of 10	31

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 37 births a year.

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

Boris 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 4 regions, from 1969 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #374 in Northern Ireland in 2021.

Boris'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	#1595	16	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1042	28	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1029	28	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#815	39	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#745	43	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#798	39	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#721	47	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#906	34	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#818	39	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#927	32	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#744	43	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#804	38	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#901	33	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1024	26	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#854	34	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1265	19	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#964	27	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1201	19	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1048	21	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1135	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#999	20	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1326	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1253	12	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1330	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1642	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#374	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#460	4	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#541	4	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#535	4	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#512	4	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#547	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#535	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#519	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#564	5	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#403	10	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#392	11	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#485	7	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#494	7	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#461	8	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#526	6	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#580	5	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#607	4	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#389	10	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#596	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#518	6	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#598	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#511	6	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#547	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#525	5	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#402	8	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#609	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#393	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
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 4 registrars between 1969 and 2024, ranked in 48 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #374, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 47 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 44 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.

Borghild · #115, 61y
Borgny · #120, 27y
Børre · #141, 40y
Boruch · #1485, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Safia · #381, 44y
Juliana · #366, 48y
Abdulrahman · #357, 45y
Desiree · #331, 53y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

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

Sive · #373, 32y
Alejandro · #372, 51y
Beryl · #372, 26y
Hatice · #377, 53y

Boris was ranked #374 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2021. 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.

Boris 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 Boris without appearing here.

Boris moved ahead of

Kelly Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1746 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1253 and #3225.
Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1746 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1253 and #3225.
Robyn Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2020 and #1765 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1330 and #3036.
Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1135 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1048 and #2538.

Moved ahead of Boris

Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1042 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1595 and #1132.
Hunter Compare
In 2008 they stood at #964 and #1085 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1265 and #848.
Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1746 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1253 and #848.
Kasper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1048 and #1168 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1201 and #820.

Moved the opposite way to Boris

Garry Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Boris went from #2020 to #1042 while Garry went from #573 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Boris went from #2020 to #1042 while Graeme went from #755 to #4107.
Nicola Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Boris went from #2020 to #1042 while Nicola went from #2863 to #4107.
Brent Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Boris went from #2020 to #1029 while Brent went from #898 to #3449.

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 4 regions, from 1969 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #374 in Northern Ireland in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Boris

Boris at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Boris across 4 official records

Boris by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Boris appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Boris

Boris and the names beside it

Boris moved ahead of

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Boris at a glance

Boris across 4 official records

Boris by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Boris 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 Boris

Boris and the names beside it

Boris moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Boris

Moved the opposite way to Boris