Bowie

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Bowie: Recorded since 2004, it reached #258 in 2021, and it stood at #352 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
60times a registrar ranked it
22years from first to last
#258highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Bowie's record

2 registrars publish it in more than one category list — an observation about those lists, not about the name. Names published across category lists

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2007–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#5201
2012	#4838
2014	#5691
2016	#3214
2017	#3583
2018	#2674
2019	#2040
2020	#1352
2021	#1195
2022	#1685
2023	#1959
2024	#1541

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 20 of the 21 years from 2004 to 2024.

In 2024: #259 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #638 among girls in Scotland, #1541 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2004–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2004
First recorded at #3651 among boys in England and Wales in 2004 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2015–2025
Highest recorded position: #258 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2021 (recorded 2015–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #352 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Bowie appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 20 years beginning in 2004, and has registered 612 births with the name.

Bowie 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.

Bowie'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	#3651 (2004)	#414 (2024)	#414 (2024)	20 of 21	612 (2004–2024)	97 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#5201 (2007)	#1195 (2021)	#1541 (2024)	12 of 18	147 (2007–2024)	28 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#730 (2011)	#394 (2024)	#509 (2025)	13 of 15	70 (2011–2025)	9 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#896 (2015)	#258 (2021)	#352 (2025)	10 of 11	108 (2015–2025)	17 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#421 (2016)	#348 (2023)	#348 (2023)	3 of 8	11 (2016–2023)	4 (2022)

Bowie 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 Bowie in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	20	5 of 10	4
2010s	204	10 of 10	20
2020sbusiest	388	5 of 10	78

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 78 births a year.

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

Bowie 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 2004 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #258 in Republic of Ireland in 2021.

Bowie'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	#1541	20	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#414	97	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1959	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#490	81	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1685	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#500	78	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1195	28	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#503	78	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1352	23	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#640	54	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2040	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#753	43	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2674	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#702	49	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#833	38	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#884	35	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1902	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2270	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#348	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#352	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#421	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	11	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#259	16	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#394	9	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#296	13	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#436	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#357	11	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#258	17	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#552	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#275	15	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#402	9	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#421	9	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#435	8	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#430	9	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#610	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#554	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	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 2004 and 2025, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #258, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 97 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

2 registrars publish 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 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 20 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.

Bowe · #755, 8y
Bowen · #346, 27y
Boyan · #2546, 12y
Bozena · #241, 30y

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.

Lilly-Mae · #257, 25y
Anayah · #256, 22y
Alaia · #262, 20y
Winter · #263, 21y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Lilly-Mae · #257, 25y
Anayah · #256, 22y
Milosz · #256, 20y
Minha · #261, 20y

Bowie was ranked #258 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2021. 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.

Bowie 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 Bowie without appearing here.

Bowie moved ahead of

Therese Compare
In 2019 they stood at #5691 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1352 and #5493.
Finley Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2674 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2040 and #5591.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2674 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2040 and #5591.
Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2040 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1352 and #4535.

Moved ahead of Bowie

Mathias Compare
In 2024 they stood at #394 and #520 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2025 that had become #509 and #432.

Moved the opposite way to Bowie

Aaron Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bowie went from #3651 to #414 while Aaron went from #41 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bowie went from #3651 to #414 while Adam went from #24 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bowie went from #3651 to #414 while Alan went from #275 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bowie went from #3651 to #414 while Alexander went from #20 to #36.

Moved the same way as Bowie

Albie Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bowie went from #3651 to #414 and Albie from #408 to #19.
Alfred Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bowie went from #3651 to #414 and Alfred from #171 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bowie went from #3651 to #414 and Archie from #45 to #10.
Arlo Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bowie went from #3651 to #414 and Arlo from #875 to #15.

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 2004 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #258 in Republic of Ireland in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bowie

Bowie at a glance

What stands out in Bowie's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bowie across 5 official records

Bowie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Bowie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Bowie at a glance

What stands out in Bowie's record

Bowie across 5 official records

Bowie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Bowie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Bowie

Bowie and the names beside it

Bowie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bowie

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