Abiola

maleStatistical record

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

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

Abiola: Recorded since 1996, it reached #409 in 2001, and it stood at #4,107 in 2023.

2registrars recorded it
20times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#409highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2020

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1998	#3142
2001	#3998
2002	#2540
2005	#4798
2011	#4049
2012	#5876
2013	#5742
2014	#5691
2020	#5493

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 8 of the 27 years from 1997 to 2023.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2023 · 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 recorded2001–2003
Highest recorded position: #409 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2001 (recorded 2001–2003).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #4107 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Boys

Abiola appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 10 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 38 births with the name.

Abiola 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.

Abiola'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	#2859 (1997)	#2754 (2005)	#4107 (2023)	8 of 27	29 (1997–2023)	5 (2005)
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#2540 (2002)	#5493 (2020)	10 of 25	38 (1996–2020)	6 (2002)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#409 (2001)	#409 (2001)	#423 (2003)	2 of 3	7 (2001–2003)	4 (2003)

Abiola 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 Abiola in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	9	2 of 10	5
2000s	12	3 of 10	4
2010s	14	4 of 10	4
2020s	3	1 of 10	3

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

Abiola 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 2023. Highest recorded position: #409 in Republic of Ireland in 2001.

Abiola'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
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#409	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 2023, ranked in 18 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #409, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 6 births, registered in England and Wales in 2002.

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 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 5 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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
8 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
6separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
5 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#4,107position in 2023, its most recent recorded year
5 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 3 to 5 years →
1registrars publishing it in more than one category listIn one registrar's lists →
6births registered in its largest year, 2002Under 25 births →

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 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.

Collins · #409, 17y
Kaelin · #409, 13y
Rasheed · #409, 23y
Tonya · #409, 15y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Chukwuemeka · #409, 28y
Collins · #409, 17y
Fahd · #409, 26y
Godwin · #409, 28y

Abiola was ranked #409 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2001. 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.

Abiola 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 Abiola without appearing here.

Abiola moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3744 and #3227 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4107 and #4991.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3744 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4107 and #4991.
Martine Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4798 and #2084 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #4049 and #4764.

Moved ahead of Abiola

Frida Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2540 and #3409 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #4798 and #1934.
Selma Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2683 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #3998 and #2023.
Shea Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2683 and #3126 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3142 and #1823.
Ida Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2683 and #3126 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3142 and #2165.

Moved the opposite way to Abiola

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Abiola went from #2683 to #5493 while Ada went from #2683 to #38.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Abiola went from #2683 to #5493 while Alma went from #2096 to #304.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Abiola went from #2683 to #5493 while Alyssa went from #783 to #213.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Abiola went from #2683 to #5493 while Amalie went from #2096 to #992.

Moved the same way as Abiola

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Abiola went from #2683 to #5493 and Abigail from #21 to #87.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Abiola went from #2683 to #5493 and Aimee from #70 to #749.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Abiola went from #2683 to #5493 and Aisling from #440 to #1556.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Girls, Abiola went from #2683 to #5493 and Alex from #161 to #1556.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2023. Highest recorded position: #409 in Republic of Ireland in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Abiola

Abiola at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Abiola across 3 official records

Abiola by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Abiola appears in

Popularity data

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Abiola at a glance

Abiola across 3 official records

Abiola by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Abiola

Abiola and the names beside it

Abiola moved ahead of

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