Kabir

maleStatistical record

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

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

Kabir: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #479, and it stood at #509 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#479highest recorded position
8groupings 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	#818
1997	#1010
1998	#1110
1999	#948
2000	#918
2001	#883
2002	#950
2003	#865
2004	#906
2005	#1014
2006	#1545
2007	#1201
2008	#964
2009	#923
2010	#897
2011	#999
2012	#866
2013	#976
2014	#781
2015	#719
2016	#631
2017	#818
2018	#763
2019	#663
2020	#551
2021	#592
2022	#492
2023	#651
2024	#479

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 England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #479 among boys in England and Wales, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #818 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 recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #479 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #509 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Kabir appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,014 births with the name.

Kabir across 2 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.

Kabir'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	#818 (1996)	#479 (2024)	#479 (2024)	29 of 29	1,014 (1996–2024)	83 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#556 (2020)	#509 (2025)	#509 (2025)	4 of 6	19 (2020–2025)	6 (2025)

Kabir 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 Kabir in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	60	4 of 10	15
2000s	208	10 of 10	21
2010s	399	10 of 10	40
2020sbusiest	347	5 of 10	69

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 69 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 29, from 54 to 83.

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

Kabir 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 2025. Highest recorded position: #479 in England and Wales in 2024.

Kabir'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	#479	83	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#651	54	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#492	79	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#592	64	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#551	67	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#663	52	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#763	43	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#818	39	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#631	56	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#719	46	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#781	40	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#976	29	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#866	35	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#999	27	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#897	32	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#923	29	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	#1545	12	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1014	21	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#906	23	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#865	23	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#950	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#883	19	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#918	17	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#948	16	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1110	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1010	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#818	18	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#552	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#556	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 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #479, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 83 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 24 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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Kabeer · #1991, 22y
Kace · #2172, 10y
Kacey · #108, 30y

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.

Murphy · #478, 27y
Raife · #477, 25y
Amarachi · #476, 28y
Oluwatamilore · #476, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Matty · #478, 26y
Murphy · #478, 27y
Reem · #478, 30y
Zaynah · #480, 29y

Kabir was ranked #479 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. 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.

Kabir 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 Kabir without appearing here.

Kabir moved ahead of

Geoffrey Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1545 and #1224 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1201 and #2435.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2000 they stood at #918 and #881 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #883 and #1595.
Derek Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1201 and #1053 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #964 and #1596.
Mitchell Compare
In 2018 they stood at #763 and #763 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #663 and #1217.

Moved ahead of Kabir

Filip Compare
In 2004 they stood at #906 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1014 and #615.
Lachlan Compare
In 1996 they stood at #818 and #1040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1010 and #678.
Oskar Compare
In 1996 they stood at #818 and #976 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1010 and #759.
Tadhg Compare
In 2022 they stood at #492 and #600 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #651 and #419.

Moved the opposite way to Kabir

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kabir went from #818 to #479 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kabir went from #818 to #479 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kabir went from #818 to #479 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kabir went from #818 to #479 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Kabir

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kabir went from #818 to #479 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kabir went from #818 to #479 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kabir went from #818 to #479 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kabir went from #818 to #479 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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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 2025. Highest recorded position: #479 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kabir

Kabir at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kabir across 2 official records

Kabir by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Kabir at a glance

Kabir across 2 official records

Kabir by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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