Zander

maleStatistical record

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

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

Zander: Recorded since 1999, its highest recorded position is #199, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#199highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1999–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#2943
2001	#2587
2002	#1190
2003	#945
2004	#1110
2005	#872
2006	#939
2007	#952
2008	#1085
2009	#944
2010	#878
2011	#781
2012	#852
2013	#520
2014	#714
2015	#612
2016	#732
2017	#537
2018	#665
2019	#568
2020	#796
2021	#598
2022	#646
2023	#587
2024	#651

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 25 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

In 2024: #199 among boys in Scotland, #305 among boys in Northern Ireland, #651 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1999–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #2943 among boys in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Zander appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 981 births with the name.

Zander 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.

Zander'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	#2943 (1999)	#520 (2013)	#651 (2024)	25 of 26	981 (1999–2024)	72 (2017)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#500 (2003)	#500 (2003)	#829 (2025)	6 of 23	18 (2003–2025)	3 (2003)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#415 (2015)	#305 (2024)	#305 (2024)	5 of 10	21 (2015–2024)	5 (2021)

Zander 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 Zander in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	182	9 of 10	20
2010s	520	10 of 10	52
2020sbusiest	276	5 of 10	55

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 55 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births rose by 35, from 36 to 71.

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

Zander 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 4 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #199 in Scotland in 2024.

Zander'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	#651	57	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#587	63	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#646	54	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#598	63	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#796	39	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#568	66	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#665	52	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#537	72	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#732	46	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#612	60	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#714	45	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#520	71	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#852	36	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#781	39	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#878	33	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#944	28	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1085	23	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#952	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#939	25	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#872	26	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1110	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#945	20	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1190	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#305	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#312	5	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#326	5	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#199	21	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1999 and 2025, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #199, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 72 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

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

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 25 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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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Pola · #199, 22y
Syeda · #199, 30y
Jace · #200, 29y
Effie · #201, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Miller · #199, 27y
Noa · #199, 29y
Reo · #199, 25y
Syeda · #199, 30y

Zander was ranked #199 in Scotland · 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.

Zander 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 Zander without appearing here.

Zander moved ahead of

Rune Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2943 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1110 and #3651.
Sander Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2587 and #2587 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #939 and #3385.
Kelly Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2587 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1190 and #3225.
Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2587 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1190 and #3225.

Moved the opposite way to Zander

Aaron Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zander went from #2943 to #651 while Aaron went from #36 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zander went from #2943 to #651 while Adam went from #21 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zander went from #2943 to #651 while Alan went from #232 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zander went from #2943 to #651 while Alex went from #45 to #171.

Moved the same way as Zander

Albie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zander went from #2943 to #651 and Albie from #750 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zander went from #2943 to #651 and Alfie from #64 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zander went from #2943 to #651 and Alfred from #150 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zander went from #2943 to #651 and Archie from #108 to #10.

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 4 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #199 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zander

Zander at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zander across 3 official records

Zander by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Zander appears in

Popularity data

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Zander across 3 official records

Zander by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Zander

Zander and the names beside it

Zander moved ahead of

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