Gift

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Gift: Recorded since 2001, its highest recorded position is #369, and it stood at #5,891 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#369highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#3262
2004	#2278
2005	#3382
2007	#2627
2008	#2487
2009	#4564
2010	#4012
2011	#5785
2012	#3681
2014	#4684
2016	#5785
2017	#4763
2018	#5666
2019	#4001
2020	#3899
2021	#3961
2022	#3148
2023	#5687
2024	#5891

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 19 of the 24 years from 2001 to 2024.

In 2004: #677 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2278 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2001–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2001
First recorded at #3262 among girls in England and Wales in 2001 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2001–2004
Highest recorded position: #369 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2001 (recorded 2001–2004).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Gift appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 2001, and has registered 94 births with the name.

Gift 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.

Gift'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	#3262 (2001)	#2278 (2004)	#5891 (2024)	19 of 24	94 (2001–2024)	9 (2008)
England and Wales · Boys	#4052 (2006)	#3865 (2010)	#4632 (2014)	4 of 9	13 (2006–2014)	4 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#369 (2001)	#369 (2001)	#677 (2004)	4 of 4	19 (2001–2004)	7 (2001)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#393 (2002)	#393 (2002)	#500 (2003)	2 of 2	7 (2002–2003)	4 (2002)

Gift 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 Gift in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000sbusiest	38	6 of 10	6
2010s	33	8 of 10	4
2020s	23	5 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

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

Gift 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 2001 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #369 in Republic of Ireland in 2001.

Gift'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	#5891	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2487	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	6	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#393	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#369	7	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 2001 and 2024, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #369, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 9 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every registrar that records it began in the same year, 2001.

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.

Gideon · #403, 30y
Giedrius · #256, 24y
Gigi · #339, 23y
Gilbert · #232, 36y

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.

Lui · #369, 25y
Nathen · #369, 21y
Dragan · #370, 26y
Jj · #367, 24y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Aleks · #368, 20y
Gracie-Mae · #368, 25y
Roksana · #370, 18y
Jj · #367, 24y

Gift was ranked #369 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2001. 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.

Gift 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 Gift without appearing here.

Gift moved ahead of

Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4001 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Gift

Malin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3148 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2346.
Cecilie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3148 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2504.
Fiadh Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4684 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2757.
Maren Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3148 and #4645 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2927.

Moved the opposite way to Gift

Ada Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gift went from #3262 to #5891 while Ada went from #1520 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gift went from #3262 to #5891 while Alma went from #1728 to #234.
Amalie Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gift went from #3262 to #5891 while Amalie went from #3998 to #1128.
Amelia Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gift went from #3262 to #5891 while Amelia went from #32 to #2.

Moved the same way as Gift

Abigail Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gift went from #3262 to #5891 and Abigail from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gift went from #3262 to #5891 and Aimee from #72 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gift went from #3262 to #5891 and Aisling from #514 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Gift went from #3262 to #5891 and Alex from #172 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2 regions, from 2001 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #369 in Republic of Ireland in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Gift

Gift at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Gift across 4 official records

Gift by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Gift appears in

Popularity data

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Gift at a glance

Gift across 4 official records

Gift by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Gift appears in

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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