Namewise

2,000 to 4,999 births

Names whose largest single-year count from any one registrar falls between 2,000 and 4,999 births.

A count of registered births, not a share and not a rate — and counts do not carry between registrars. England and Wales records roughly 600,000 births a year and Northern Ireland roughly 22,000, so the same naming habit produces figures nearly thirty times apart. A name reaching a larger count than another therefore says which registrar recorded it at least as much as it says how widely it was given. Each figure names its registrar and year for that reason. Within one registrar the counts are directly comparable; across them they are not.

100 names, ordered by largest recorded count first.