Angus

maleStatistical record

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

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

Angus: Recorded since 1964, it reached #35 in 2008, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
142times a registrar ranked it
62years from first to last
#35highest recorded position
27groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Angus's record

Held a top-100 place for 36 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#144
1997	#143
1998	#137
1999	#149
2000	#146
2001	#165
2002	#166
2003	#187
2004	#233
2005	#208
2006	#208
2007	#264
2008	#273
2009	#303
2010	#311
2011	#338
2012	#408
2013	#333
2014	#378
2015	#302
2016	#365
2017	#293
2018	#297
2019	#303
2020	#377
2021	#329
2022	#322
2023	#296
2024	#323

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 22 of the 61 years from 1964 to 2024.

In 2024: #38 among boys in Scotland, #64 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, #323 among boys in England and Wales, #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1964–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #232 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1990–2025
Highest recorded position: #35 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 2008 (recorded 1990–2025).
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #75 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 2025.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys

Angus appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is New South Wales, Australia · Boys, with 36 ranked years and 5,573 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1964.

Angus across 5 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.

Angus'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	#232 (1964)	#194 (1965)	#785 (2024)	22 of 61	86 (1964–2024)	7 (1976)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#88 (1990)	#35 (2008)	#75 (2025)	36 of 36	5,573 (1990–2025)	240 (2008)
England and Wales · Boys	#144 (1996)	#137 (1998)	#323 (2024)	29 of 29	4,944 (1996–2024)	273 (1998)
New Zealand · Boys	#87 (1995)	#53 (2010)	#83 (2023)	28 of 29	1,978 (1995–2023)	95 (2010)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#248 (1997)	#186 (1999)	#404 (2024)	26 of 28	128 (1997–2024)	9 (2021)

Angus by decade in New South Wales, Australia · 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 Angus in New South Wales, Australia · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	1,421	10 of 10	142
2000sbusiest	2,149	10 of 10	215
2010s	1,322	10 of 10	132
2020s	681	6 of 10	114

Across New South Wales, Australia · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 215 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1994 and 1995, when recorded births rose by 51, from 105 to 156.

See the names New South Wales, Australiahas recorded the most births with →

Angus 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 6 regions, from 1964 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #35 in New South Wales, Australia in 2008.

Angus'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	#323	136	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#296	151	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#322	137	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#329	139	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#377	113	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#303	161	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#297	164	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#293	170	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#365	127	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#302	153	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#378	108	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#333	126	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#408	98	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#338	128	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#311	143	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#303	138	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#273	158	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#264	152	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#208	201	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#208	179	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#233	141	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#187	207	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#166	238	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#165	214	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#146	252	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#149	236	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#137	273	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#143	254	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#144	247	High	Verified
2025	New South Wales, Australia	male	#75	110	Insufficient	Not yet available
2024	New South Wales, Australia	male	#64	118	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New South Wales, Australia	male	#70	114	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	New South Wales, Australia	male	#73	117	Insufficient	Not yet available
2021	New South Wales, Australia	male	#82	115	Insufficient	Not yet available
2020	New South Wales, Australia	male	#83	107	Insufficient	Not yet available
2019	New South Wales, Australia	male	#73	124	Insufficient	Not yet available
2018	New South Wales, Australia	male	#81	111	Insufficient	Not yet available
2017	New South Wales, Australia	male	#86	103	Insufficient	Not yet available
2016	New South Wales, Australia	male	#77	138	Insufficient	Not yet available
2015	New South Wales, Australia	male	#85	110	Insufficient	Not yet available
2014	New South Wales, Australia	male	#78	131	Insufficient	Not yet available
2013	New South Wales, Australia	male	#86	125	Insufficient	Not yet available
2012	New South Wales, Australia	male	#61	165	Insufficient	Not yet available
2011	New South Wales, Australia	male	#61	156	Insufficient	Not yet available
2010	New South Wales, Australia	male	#61	159	Insufficient	Not yet available
2009	New South Wales, Australia	male	#49	192	Insufficient	Not yet available
2008	New South Wales, Australia	male	#35	240	Insufficient	Not yet available
2007	New South Wales, Australia	male	#46	205	Insufficient	Not yet available
2006	New South Wales, Australia	male	#45	221	Insufficient	Not yet available
2005	New South Wales, Australia	male	#45	212	Insufficient	Not yet available
2004	New South Wales, Australia	male	#44	203	Insufficient	Not yet available
2003	New South Wales, Australia	male	#41	233	Insufficient	Not yet available
2002	New South Wales, Australia	male	#41	228	Insufficient	Not yet available
2001	New South Wales, Australia	male	#47	209	Insufficient	Not yet available
2000	New South Wales, Australia	male	#46	206	Insufficient	Not yet available
1999	New South Wales, Australia	male	#47	204	Insufficient	Not yet available
1998	New South Wales, Australia	male	#50	194	Insufficient	Not yet available
1997	New South Wales, Australia	male	#64	154	Insufficient	Not yet available
1996	New South Wales, Australia	male	#58	168	Insufficient	Not yet available
1995	New South Wales, Australia	male	#62	156	Insufficient	Not yet available
1994	New South Wales, Australia	male	#84	105	Insufficient	Not yet available
1993	New South Wales, Australia	male	#76	113	Insufficient	Not yet available
1992	New South Wales, Australia	male	#70	136	Insufficient	Not yet available
1991	New South Wales, Australia	male	#81	105	Insufficient	Not yet available
1990	New South Wales, Australia	male	#88	86	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	male	#83	51	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	male	#80	60	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	male	#79	60	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	male	#73	70	High	Verified
2018	New Zealand	male	#84	57	High	Verified
2017	New Zealand	male	#89	60	High	Verified
2016	New Zealand	male	#72	75	High	Verified
2015	New Zealand	male	#72	78	High	Verified
2014	New Zealand	male	#84	54	High	Verified
2013	New Zealand	male	#91	54	High	Verified
2012	New Zealand	male	#62	80	High	Verified
2011	New Zealand	male	#66	72	High	Verified
2010	New Zealand	male	#53	95	High	Verified
2009	New Zealand	male	#66	76	High	Verified
2008	New Zealand	male	#77	70	High	Verified
2007	New Zealand	male	#68	81	High	Verified
2006	New Zealand	male	#56	88	High	Verified
2005	New Zealand	male	#76	66	High	Verified
2004	New Zealand	male	#74	70	High	Verified
2003	New Zealand	male	#65	81	High	Verified
2002	New Zealand	male	#75	67	High	Verified
2001	New Zealand	male	#63	76	High	Verified
2000	New Zealand	male	#76	69	High	Verified
1999	New Zealand	male	#62	87	High	Verified
1998	New Zealand	male	#58	87	High	Verified
1997	New Zealand	male	#86	61	High	Verified
1996	New Zealand	male	#77	69	High	Verified
1995	New Zealand	male	#87	64	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#414	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#226	9	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#334	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#365	4	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#416	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#279	6	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#358	4	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#288	6	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#346	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#267	6	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#329	4	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#291	5	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#315	4	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#218	7	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#235	5	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	male	#210	6	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#204	6	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#207	6	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#206	6	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#186	8	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#221	5	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#248	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#409	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#337	3	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#250	5	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#330	3	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#322	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	3	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#232	7	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#251	6	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#305	3	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#246	5	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	male	#222	5	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#265	3	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	male	#199	6	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#194	6	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	male	#232	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#38	106	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
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 6 registrars between 1964 and 2025, ranked in 50 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #35, first reached in 2008.

It held a top-100 place in 36 years, 36 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 273 births, registered in England and Wales in 1998.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1990, and 60 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.

Angharad · #266, 28y
Angie · #898, 28y
Anh · #1892, 25y
Anhad · #1517, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 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.

Angelina · #35, 51y
Corey · #37, 54y
Keira · #33, 49y
Kirsty · #33, 54y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Angelina · #35, 51y
Madeleine · #35, 57y
Myles · #35, 62y
Claudia · #36, 65y

Angus was ranked #35 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 2008. 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.

Angus 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 Angus without appearing here.

Angus moved ahead of

Colin Compare
In 2020 they stood at #416 and #416 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2021 that had become #226 and #433.
Ciaran Compare
In 2012 they stood at #408 and #382 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #333 and #489.
Ashley Compare
In 2016 they stood at #365 and #322 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #293 and #414.
Graham Compare
In 2009 they stood at #329 and #329 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2010 that had become #267 and #387.

Moved ahead of Angus

Hunter Compare
In 2011 they stood at #338 and #473 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #408 and #238.
Mohammed Compare
In 2017 they stood at #358 and #421 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2018 that had become #416 and #255.
Hayden Compare
In 2021 they stood at #226 and #295 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2022 that had become #414 and #264.
Oskar Compare
In 2021 they stood at #226 and #295 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2022 that had become #414 and #264.

Moved the opposite way to Angus

Alexander Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Angus went from #232 to #785 while Alexander went from #116 to #44.
Benjamin Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Angus went from #232 to #785 while Benjamin went from #139 to #74.
Conor Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Angus went from #232 to #785 while Conor went from #56 to #19.
Daniel Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Angus went from #232 to #785 while Daniel went from #19 to #11.

Moved the same way as Angus

Alfred Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Angus went from #232 to #785 and Alfred from #134 to #430.
Denis Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Angus went from #232 to #785 and Denis from #21 to #195.
Frank Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Angus went from #232 to #785 and Frank from #164 to #267.
George Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Angus went from #232 to #785 and George from #52 to #88.

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 6 regions, from 1964 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #35 in New South Wales, Australia in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Angus

Angus at a glance

What stands out in Angus's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Angus across 5 official records

Angus by decade in New South Wales, Australia · Boys

Angus appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Angus

Angus and the names beside it

Angus moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Angus

Moved the opposite way to Angus

Moved the same way as Angus

Angus at a glance

What stands out in Angus's record

Angus across 5 official records

Angus by decade in New South Wales, Australia · Boys

Angus appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Angus

Angus and the names beside it

Angus moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Angus

Moved the opposite way to Angus

Moved the same way as Angus