By highest recorded position

The best position a name reached in any single published list, in any year.

The bands are exclusive, so each name appears in exactly one. A position is only ever compared within the list that published it — a #4 in Norway and a #4 in England and Wales are two different lists, and Namewise never combines them.

11,129 records across 6 bands, ordered by highest recorded position.

• Reached number one

  Names that reached #1 in at least one registrar's published list.

  63 names

• Reached the top ten

  Names whose best recorded position is between #2 and #10.

  258 names

• Reached the top fifty

  Names whose best recorded position is between #11 and #50.

  653 names

• Reached the top hundred

  Names whose best recorded position is between #51 and #100.

  632 names

• Reached the top five hundred

  Names whose best recorded position is between #101 and #500.

  3,559 names

• Never inside the top five hundred

  Names whose best recorded position in any list is #501 or lower.

  5,964 names