Alasdair

maleStatistical record

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

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

Alasdair: Recorded since 1979, with a gap of 16 years, its highest recorded position is #234, reached in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
46years from first to last
#234highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Alasdair's record

Absent from every published list for 16 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#335
1997	#344
1998	#365
1999	#463
2000	#372
2001	#617
2002	#546
2003	#761
2004	#703
2005	#827
2006	#764
2007	#987
2008	#987
2009	#1133
2010	#1289
2011	#1522
2012	#1507
2013	#1116
2014	#1144
2015	#1186
2016	#1187
2017	#1703
2018	#1683
2019	#1745
2020	#1379
2021	#1448
2022	#1314
2023	#1533
2024	#1595

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 3 of the 44 years from 1979 to 2022.

In 2024: #234 among boys in Scotland, #1595 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1979–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1979
First recorded at #324 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1979 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1595 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Alasdair appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 843 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1979.

Alasdair 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.

Alasdair'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
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#324 (1979)	#324 (1979)	#779 (2022)	3 of 44	9 (1979–2022)	3 (1979)
England and Wales · Boys	#335 (1996)	#335 (1996)	#1595 (2024)	29 of 29	843 (1996–2024)	71 (1996)

Alasdair 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 Alasdair in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	249	4 of 10	62
2000sbusiest	325	10 of 10	33
2010s	182	10 of 10	18
2020s	87	5 of 10	17

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 33 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2000 and 2001, when recorded births fell by 33, from 63 to 30.

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

Alasdair 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 1979 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #234 in Scotland in 2024.

Alasdair'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	#1595	16	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1314	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1448	17	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1379	18	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1745	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1683	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1703	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1187	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1186	22	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1144	23	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1116	23	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1507	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1522	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1289	19	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1133	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#987	26	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#987	25	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#764	33	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#827	28	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#703	33	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#761	27	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#546	38	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#617	30	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#372	63	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#463	46	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#365	63	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#344	69	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#335	71	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#234	17	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 1979 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #234, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 71 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 16 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 45 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.

Lawson · #234, 30y
Annalise · #233, 31y
Egle · #235, 26y
Fern · #233, 32y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Barrie · #234, 20y
Corina · #234, 44y
Emanuel · #234, 39y
Ayman · #233, 42y

Alasdair was ranked #234 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.

Alasdair 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 Alasdair without appearing here.

Alasdair moved ahead of

Gary Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1448 and #1329 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1314 and #2018.
Brett Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1745 and #1745 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1379 and #1935.
Calum Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1379 and #1192 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1448 and #1984.
Wayne Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1683 and #1683 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1745 and #2266.

Moved ahead of Alasdair

Darragh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1683 and #1991 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1745 and #974.
Conan Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1187 and #1234 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #1703 and #1210.
Hudson Compare
In 2006 they stood at #764 and #885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #987 and #538.
Magnus Compare
In 2006 they stood at #764 and #863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #987 and #584.

Moved the opposite way to Alasdair

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alasdair went from #335 to #1595 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alasdair went from #335 to #1595 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alasdair went from #335 to #1595 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alasdair went from #335 to #1595 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Alasdair

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alasdair went from #335 to #1595 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alasdair went from #335 to #1595 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alasdair went from #335 to #1595 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alasdair went from #335 to #1595 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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 1979 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #234 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Alasdair

Alasdair at a glance

What stands out in Alasdair's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alasdair across 2 official records

Alasdair by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Alasdair appears in

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What the record shows

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Alasdair at a glance

What stands out in Alasdair's record

Alasdair across 2 official records

Alasdair by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Alasdair appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Alasdair

Alasdair and the names beside it

Alasdair moved ahead of

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