Boluwatife

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Boluwatife: Recorded since 1996, it reached #506 in 2004, and it stood at #1,859 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#506highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3142
2001	#3998
2002	#4137
2003	#4373
2004	#4598
2005	#1796
2006	#3116
2007	#1502
2008	#2487
2009	#2535
2010	#3156
2011	#2636
2012	#4171
2013	#4050
2014	#4684
2015	#5730
2016	#3609
2017	#4063
2018	#5666
2019	#3151
2022	#4645
2023	#5687
2024	#2253

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 22 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2006: #635 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3116 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 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 recorded2004–2008
Highest recorded position: #506 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2004 (recorded 2004–2008).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2253 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Boluwatife appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 23 ranked years and 142 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Boys, from 1996.

Boluwatife across 4 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.

Boluwatife'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	#2357 (1996)	#1859 (2024)	#1859 (2024)	22 of 29	146 (1996–2024)	13 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#3142 (1998)	#1502 (2007)	#2253 (2024)	23 of 27	142 (1998–2024)	17 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#506 (2004)	#506 (2004)	#698 (2008)	3 of 5	9 (2004–2008)	3 (2004)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#655 (2003)	#635 (2006)	#635 (2006)	2 of 4	7 (2003–2006)	4 (2006)

Boluwatife 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 Boluwatife in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	4	1 of 10	4
2000sbusiest	65	9 of 10	7
2010s	54	10 of 10	5
2020s	19	3 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

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

Boluwatife 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 2024. Highest recorded position: #506 in Republic of Ireland in 2004.

Boluwatife'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	#2253	12	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1859	13	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2535	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2544	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2487	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2276	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1502	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1878	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#635	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	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 2024, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #506, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 17 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

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 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 7 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.

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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.

Ahad · #506, 29y
Chidera · #506, 24y
Danish · #506, 29y
Ely · #506, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Ahad · #506, 29y
Chesney · #506, 13y
Chidera · #506, 24y
Danish · #506, 29y

Boluwatife was ranked #506 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2004. 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.

Boluwatife 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 Boluwatife without appearing here.

Boluwatife moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #5891.
Dianne Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4684 and #4003 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #5891.
Donna Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #5891.
Evan Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Boluwatife

Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3151 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #4645 and #1452.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4050 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4684 and #1628.
Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4684 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #2705.
Blake Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2636 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4171 and #1893.

Moved the opposite way to Boluwatife

Teddy Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Boluwatife went from #4137 to #2253 while Teddy went from #4137 to #5891.
Blake Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Boluwatife went from #1502 to #2253 while Blake went from #5201 to #432.

Moved the same way as Boluwatife

Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Boluwatife went from #3142 to #5687 and Josefine from #3848 to #5687.
Kristin Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Boluwatife went from #3142 to #5687 and Kristin from #1122 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Boluwatife went from #3142 to #5687 and Therese from #2165 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Boluwatife went from #3142 to #5687 and Tracey from #1319 to #5687.

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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #506 in Republic of Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Boluwatife

Boluwatife at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Boluwatife across 4 official records

Boluwatife by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Boluwatife appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Boluwatife at a glance

Boluwatife across 4 official records

Boluwatife by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Boluwatife 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 Boluwatife

Boluwatife and the names beside it

Boluwatife moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Boluwatife

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