Al

maleStatistical record

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

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

Al: Recorded since 1996, it reached #305 in 2003, and it stood at #1,595 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#305highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2016

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#2189
2006	#3548
2007	#4294
2010	#5707
2016	#3214

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2004: #390 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #2070 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1235 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2002–2004
Highest recorded position: #305 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2003 (recorded 2002–2004).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1595 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Al appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 260 births with the name.

Al 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.

Al'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
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#1096 (2000)	#1595 (2024)	28 of 29	260 (1996–2024)	16 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#2189 (1999)	#2189 (1999)	#3214 (2016)	5 of 18	26 (1999–2016)	7 (1999)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#348 (2002)	#305 (2003)	#390 (2004)	3 of 3	17 (2002–2004)	7 (2003)

Al 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 Al in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	30	4 of 10	8
2000sbusiest	110	10 of 10	11
2010s	82	10 of 10	8
2020s	38	4 of 10	10

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 11 births a year.

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

Al 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #305 in Republic of Ireland in 2003.

Al'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	#3523	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1984	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2960	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2259	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1902	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1819	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1852	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1749	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2276	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1440	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1744	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1716	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2070	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1132	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1519	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1286	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1096	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1367	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#390	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#305	7	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#348	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #305, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 6 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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Al-Amin · #1991, 22y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Hafsah · #305, 29y
Kamran · #305, 29y
Oluwatobiloba · #305, 27y
Petrina · #305, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Denzel · #305, 30y
Divine · #305, 29y
Eathan · #305, 19y
Hafsah · #305, 29y

Al was ranked #305 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2003. 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.

Al 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 Al without appearing here.

Al moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1595 and #5119.
Brett Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #3523 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1595 and #4270.
Grant Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1595 and #4270.
Keith Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #2325 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1595 and #3688.

Moved ahead of Al

Matheo Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1984 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #1363.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1984 and #3451 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #1461.
Malin Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2259 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #2728.
Rune Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1984 and #2125 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #1799.

Moved the same way as Al

Garry Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Al went from #1235 to #3523 and Garry from #573 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Al went from #1235 to #3523 and Graeme from #755 to #4107.
Nicola Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Al went from #1235 to #3523 and Nicola from #2863 to #4107.
Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Al went from #2022 to #3523 and Kelly from #1454 to #3523.

What's not yet available

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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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #305 in Republic of Ireland in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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