Bibi

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Bibi: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #461, and it stood at #1,128 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#461highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1112
1997	#820
1998	#801
1999	#752
2000	#876
2001	#710
2002	#861
2003	#759
2004	#788
2005	#769
2006	#816
2007	#919
2008	#899
2009	#916
2010	#1040
2011	#1117
2012	#1184
2013	#1177
2014	#1070
2015	#1405
2016	#1370
2017	#1371
2018	#1526
2019	#2170
2020	#1556
2021	#1351
2022	#1081
2023	#1108
2024	#1128

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 girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #461 among girls in Norway, #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1108 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1112 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
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1128 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Bibi appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 827 births with the name.

Bibi 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.

Bibi'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 · Girls	#1112 (1996)	#710 (2001)	#1128 (2024)	29 of 29	827 (1996–2024)	37 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#862 (2008)	#742 (2009)	#856 (2023)	3 of 16	10 (2008–2023)	4 (2009)

Bibi 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 Bibi in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	102	4 of 10	26
2000sbusiest	337	10 of 10	34
2010s	255	10 of 10	26
2020s	133	5 of 10	27

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 34 births a year.

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

Bibi 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 2024. Highest recorded position: #461 in Norway in 2023.

Bibi'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	female	#1128	30	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1108	30	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1081	31	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1351	23	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1556	19	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2170	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1526	20	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1371	24	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1370	24	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1405	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1070	33	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1177	29	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1184	28	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1117	30	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1040	32	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#916	36	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#899	36	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#919	33	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#816	37	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#769	37	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#788	35	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#759	36	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#861	27	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#710	35	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#876	25	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#752	30	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#801	28	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#820	27	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1112	17	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#461	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
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 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #461, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 37 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 27 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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Bilal · #197, 50y

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.

Cyrus · #462, 30y
Jannah · #463, 30y
Kya · #459, 30y
Leen · #458, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Cyrus · #462, 30y
Haya · #460, 28y
Humaira · #460, 29y
Izaak · #462, 29y

Bibi was ranked #461 in Norway · Girls in 2023. 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.

Bibi 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 Bibi without appearing here.

Bibi moved ahead of

Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2170 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1556 and #4535.
Jenny Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1556 and #1100 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1351 and #2499.
Sinead Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1556 and #1556 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1351 and #2499.
Wendy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1556 and #1449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1351 and #2201.

Moved ahead of Bibi

Maja Compare
In 2005 they stood at #769 and #951 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #816 and #456.
Aria Compare
In 2009 they stood at #916 and #1248 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1040 and #773.
Astrid Compare
In 2008 they stood at #899 and #937 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #916 and #664.
Frida Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1184 and #1210 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1177 and #925.

Moved the opposite way to Bibi

Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bibi went from #752 to #1128 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bibi went from #752 to #1128 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.
Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bibi went from #710 to #1128 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bibi went from #788 to #1128 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.

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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #461 in Norway in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bibi

Bibi at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bibi across 2 official records

Bibi by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bibi appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Bibi

Bibi and the names beside it

Bibi moved ahead of

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Bibi at a glance

Bibi across 2 official records

Bibi by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bibi appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Bibi

Bibi and the names beside it

Bibi moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bibi

Moved the opposite way to Bibi