Archibald

maleStatistical record

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

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

Archibald: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #346, reached in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#346highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#853
1997	#725
1998	#669
1999	#621
2000	#624
2001	#495
2002	#458
2003	#448
2004	#555
2005	#487
2006	#462
2007	#509
2008	#430
2009	#505
2010	#503
2011	#631
2012	#478
2013	#451
2014	#597
2015	#461
2016	#477
2017	#392
2018	#414
2019	#518
2020	#475
2021	#471
2022	#435
2023	#464
2024	#374
2025	#346

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 every year from 1996 to 2025.

In 2024: #374 among boys in England and Wales, #382 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #853 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2025
Highest recorded position: #346 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025 (recorded 1996–2025).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #346 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Archibald 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 Archibald in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	92	4 of 10	23
2000s	562	10 of 10	56
2010s	812	10 of 10	81
2020sbusiest	585	6 of 10	98

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 98 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2014 and 2015, when recorded births rose by 29, from 59 to 88.

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

Archibald 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #346 in England and Wales in 2025.

Archibald'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
2025	England and Wales	male	#346	123	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#374	115	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#464	86	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#435	93	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#471	86	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#475	82	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#518	75	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#414	102	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#392	113	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#477	85	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#461	88	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#597	59	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#451	87	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#478	80	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#631	53	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#503	70	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#505	69	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#430	85	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#509	63	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#462	69	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#487	57	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#555	46	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#448	55	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#458	48	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#495	41	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#624	29	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#621	28	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#669	25	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#725	22	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#853	17	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#357	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#382	9	High	Verified

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

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

Where Archibald is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Archibald, between 1996 and 2025. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#346 in 2025
Northern Ireland	2007	1	#357 in 2007
Scotland	2024	1	#382 in 2024

Its high point came 18 years earlier in Northern Ireland (2007) than in England and Wales (2025).

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #346, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 123 births, registered in England and Wales in 2025.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 28 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 3 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.

Aris · #346, 27y
Fiza · #346, 28y
Hashim · #345, 30y
Woody · #347, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aris · #346, 27y
Dawud · #346, 30y
Fiza · #346, 28y
Nikhil · #346, 30y

Archibald was ranked #346 in England and Wales · Boys in 2025. 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.

Ayyub#342
Filip#342
Hughie#342
Zachariah#346
Orhan#348
Oskar#349
Yaqub#349
Arjan#351

Archibald 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Archibald without appearing here.

Archibald moved ahead of

Geoffrey
In 1998 they stood at #669 and #571 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #621 and #1082.
Jon
In 2007 they stood at #509 and #492 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #430 and #789.
Courtney
In 1998 they stood at #669 and #554 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #621 and #973.
Glenn
In 2000 they stood at #624 and #616 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #495 and #842.

Moved ahead of Archibald

Arlo
In 2008 they stood at #430 and #567 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #505 and #311.
Hunter
In 2010 they stood at #503 and #625 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #631 and #473.
Cillian
In 2013 they stood at #451 and #730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #597 and #550.
Lachlan
In 2017 they stood at #392 and #423 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #414 and #397.

Moved the opposite way to Archibald

Aaron
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Archibald went from #853 to #346 while Aaron went from #33 to #180.
Adam
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Archibald went from #853 to #346 while Adam went from #16 to #26.
Alan
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Archibald went from #853 to #346 while Alan went from #163 to #539.
Alex
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Archibald went from #853 to #346 while Alex went from #43 to #207.

Moved the same way as Archibald

Albie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Archibald went from #853 to #346 and Albie from #853 to #21.
Alfie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Archibald went from #853 to #346 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Archibald went from #853 to #346 and Alfred from #218 to #76.
Archie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Archibald went from #853 to #346 and Archie from #192 to #11.

What's not yet available

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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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #346 in England and Wales in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Archibald

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Archibald by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Archibald by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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