Gene

maleStatistical record

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

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

Gene: Recorded since 1971, with a gap of 11 years, it reached #255 in 1978, and it stood at #702 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
54years from first to last
#255highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Gene's record

Absent from every published list for 11 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1591
1997	#2859
1999	#2425
2001	#1467
2002	#2254
2003	#1248
2004	#1110
2005	#919
2006	#832
2007	#799
2008	#684
2009	#809
2010	#996
2011	#852
2012	#998
2013	#837
2014	#1093
2015	#1024
2016	#870
2017	#806
2018	#763
2019	#707
2020	#845
2021	#939
2022	#799
2023	#710
2024	#702

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 Republic of Ireland in 14 of the 53 years from 1972 to 2024.

In 2024: #702 among boys in England and Wales, #727 among boys in Scotland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1971–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1971
First recorded at #326 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1971 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1972–2024
Highest recorded position: #255 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1978 (recorded 1972–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #702 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Gene appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 27 ranked years and 774 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1971.

Gene 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.

Gene'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	#307 (1972)	#255 (1978)	#785 (2024)	14 of 53	55 (1972–2024)	6 (2021)
England and Wales · Boys	#1591 (1996)	#684 (2008)	#702 (2024)	27 of 29	774 (1996–2024)	51 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#326 (1971)	#326 (1971)	#529 (1983)	2 of 13	10 (1971–1983)	7 (1971)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#433 (2021)	#395 (2023)	#395 (2023)	2 of 3	6 (2021–2023)	3 (2021)

Gene 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 Gene in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	14	3 of 10	5
2000s	209	9 of 10	23
2010s	345	10 of 10	35
2020sbusiest	206	5 of 10	41

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 41 births a year.

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

Gene 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 1971 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #255 in Republic of Ireland in 1978.

Gene'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	#702	51	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#710	48	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#799	40	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#939	32	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#845	35	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#707	47	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#763	43	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#806	40	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#870	36	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1024	28	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1093	25	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#837	36	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#998	28	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#852	34	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#996	28	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#809	35	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#684	43	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#799	33	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#832	30	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#919	24	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1110	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1248	13	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1591	7	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#498	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#274	4	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#529	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#292	4	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#255	5	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#333	3	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#258	5	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#326	7	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	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 1971 and 2024, ranked in 37 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #255, first reached in 1978.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 51 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 11 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 53 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 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.

Hiba · #254, 40y
Ray · #251, 40y
Angelo · #250, 32y
Alec · #249, 42y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Alisa · #255, 45y
Aodan · #254, 20y
Giedrius · #256, 24y
Glynn · #254, 13y

Gene was ranked #255 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1978. 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.

Gene 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 Gene without appearing here.

Gene moved ahead of

Harald Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2859 and #2859 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #832 and #4052.
Anders Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2254 and #1519 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1248 and #2857.
Tayla Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2254 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1248 and #2857.
Arne Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2425 and #2425 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #1467 and #2587.

Moved ahead of Gene

Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #2254 and #848.
Lucas Compare
In 2011 they stood at #292 and #324 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2012 that had become #718 and #71.
Isaac Compare
In 2011 they stood at #258 and #316 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2012 that had become #718 and #85.
Shea Compare
In 2011 they stood at #255 and #283 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2012 that had become #718 and #250.

Moved the opposite way to Gene

Arthur Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Gene went from #307 to #785 while Arthur went from #143 to #47.
Cian Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Gene went from #307 to #785 while Cian went from #168 to #33.
Cillian Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Gene went from #307 to #785 while Cillian went from #207 to #4.
Evan Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Gene went from #307 to #785 while Evan went from #186 to #63.

Moved the same way as Gene

Adrian Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Gene went from #307 to #785 and Adrian from #50 to #200.
Alan Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Gene went from #307 to #785 and Alan from #11 to #240.
Andrew Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Gene went from #307 to #785 and Andrew from #38 to #106.
Anthony Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Gene went from #307 to #785 and Anthony from #14 to #102.

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 4 regions, from 1971 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #255 in Republic of Ireland in 1978. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Gene

Gene at a glance

What stands out in Gene's record

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Popularity journey

Gene across 4 official records

Gene by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Gene across 4 official records

Gene by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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