Light

maleStatistical record

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

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

1registrar recorded it
9times a registrar ranked it
9years from first to last
#2000highest recorded position

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2022–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2022	#4645
2023	#2927
2024	#2000
2025	#2440

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 5 of the 9 years from 2017 to 2025.

Official data for England and Wales, 2017–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2017
First recorded at #4812 among boys in England and Wales in 2017 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2022–2025
Highest recorded position: #2000 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 2022–2025).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #2440 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Light appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 5 years beginning in 2017, and has registered 30 births with the name.

Light 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.

Light'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	#4812 (2017)	#2014 (2025)	#2014 (2025)	5 of 9	30 (2017–2025)	12 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#4645 (2022)	#2000 (2024)	#2440 (2025)	4 of 4	37 (2022–2025)	14 (2024)

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2017 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #2000 in England and Wales in 2024.

Light'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#2440	11	High	Verified
2025	England and Wales	male	#2014	12	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#2000	14	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2017 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #2000 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Light

Light at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Light across 2 official records

Popularity data

Light at a glance

Light across 2 official records