Taiwo

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Taiwo: Recorded since 1996, it reached #500 in 2003, and it stood at #4,192 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
51times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#500highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#2152
1998	#2165
1999	#2444
2000	#3247
2001	#3262
2002	#3409
2003	#2727
2004	#2802
2005	#2682
2006	#2509
2007	#3667
2008	#4524
2009	#5556
2010	#4688
2011	#4764
2012	#3681
2013	#4050
2014	#4003
2016	#2966
2017	#5765
2018	#4684
2022	#4645
2023	#4056
2024	#4192

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 girls in England and Wales in 25 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2006: #596 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #2870 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 #2683 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2003–2006
Highest recorded position: #500 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2003 (recorded 2003–2006).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Taiwo appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 129 births with the name.

Taiwo 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.

Taiwo'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	#1458 (1996)	#1458 (1996)	#5119 (2024)	24 of 29	134 (1996–2024)	10 (2013)
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#2152 (1997)	#4192 (2024)	25 of 29	129 (1996–2024)	8 (2006)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#500 (2003)	#500 (2003)	#596 (2006)	2 of 4	6 (2003–2006)	3 (2003)

Taiwo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Taiwo in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	25	4 of 10	6
2000sbusiest	51	10 of 10	5
2010s	39	8 of 10	5
2020s	14	3 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 5 births a year.

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

Taiwo 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: #500 in Republic of Ireland in 2003.

Taiwo'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	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2966	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2055	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2775	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2070	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1595	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1552	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1642	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1458	8	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#596	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	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 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #500, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 10 births, registered in England and Wales in 2013.

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 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 7 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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Tait · #1732, 22y
Taiya · #1083, 25y
Taj · #91, 18y

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.

Abdel · #500, 26y
Arif · #500, 29y
Ata · #500, 23y
Basit · #500, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Abdel · #500, 26y
Arif · #500, 29y
Ayobami · #500, 18y
Ayoola · #500, 13y

Taiwo was ranked #500 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.

Taiwo 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 Taiwo without appearing here.

Taiwo moved ahead of

Tayla Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3227 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #2055 and #4685.
Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4764 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #5876.
Jeanette Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4764 and #4049 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #5876.
Lene Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4688 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #5876.

Moved ahead of Taiwo

Eabha Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2966 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2201.
Luca Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2966 and #3609 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2502.
Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4050 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2706.
Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3996 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4789 and #2018.

Moved the opposite way to Taiwo

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Taiwo went from #2683 to #4192 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Taiwo went from #1458 to #5119 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Taiwo went from #1458 to #5119 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Taiwo went from #1458 to #5119 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.

Moved the same way as Taiwo

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Taiwo went from #1458 to #5119 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Taiwo went from #2683 to #4192 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Taiwo went from #1458 to #5119 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Taiwo went from #2683 to #4192 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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: #500 in Republic of Ireland in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Taiwo

Taiwo at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Taiwo across 3 official records

Taiwo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Taiwo appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Taiwo moved ahead of

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Taiwo at a glance

Taiwo across 3 official records

Taiwo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Taiwo appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Taiwo

Taiwo and the names beside it

Taiwo moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Taiwo

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