Godwin

maleStatistical record

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

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

Godwin: Recorded since 1996, it reached #409 in 2001, and it stood at #2,921 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#409highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2863
1997	#2337
1999	#2425
2000	#1889
2001	#2220
2002	#2636
2003	#1962
2004	#1878
2005	#1456
2006	#1224
2007	#1578
2008	#1706
2009	#1981
2010	#1483
2011	#1909
2012	#2117
2013	#1539
2014	#1935
2015	#1279
2016	#1498
2017	#1703
2018	#1610
2019	#2488
2020	#4608
2021	#4789
2022	#3449
2023	#2546
2024	#2921

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2014: #715 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1935 among boys 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 #2863 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 recorded2001–2014
Highest recorded position: #409 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2001 (recorded 2001–2014).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2921 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Godwin appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 269 births with the name.

Godwin 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.

Godwin'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	#2863 (1996)	#1224 (2006)	#2921 (2024)	28 of 29	269 (1996–2024)	20 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#409 (2001)	#409 (2001)	#715 (2014)	5 of 14	17 (2001–2014)	5 (2009)

Godwin 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 Godwin in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	11	3 of 10	4
2000s	95	10 of 10	10
2010sbusiest	137	10 of 10	14
2020s	26	5 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 14 births a year.

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

Godwin 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: #409 in Republic of Ireland in 2001.

Godwin'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	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2546	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2488	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1610	15	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1703	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1498	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1279	20	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1539	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2117	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1909	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1483	16	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1981	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1706	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1578	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1224	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1456	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1878	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1889	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#532	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#409	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 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #409, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 20 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

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

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 5 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.

Goda · #363, 19y
Godfrey · #229, 14y
Goldie · #608, 23y
Goldy · #2770, 15y

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.

Chukwuemeka · #409, 28y
Fahd · #409, 26y
Ifeoluwa · #409, 29y
Kameron · #409, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Abiola · #409, 18y
Chukwuemeka · #409, 28y
Collins · #409, 17y
Fahd · #409, 26y

Godwin was ranked #409 in Republic of Ireland · Boys 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.

Godwin 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 Godwin without appearing here.

Godwin moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3449 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2546 and #4991.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4789 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2546 and #4991.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2546 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2921 and #5119.
Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4608 and #3848 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2546 and #4107.

Moved ahead of Godwin

Gunnar Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2488 and #2728 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #1935.
Gustav Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2488 and #3937 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #3334.
Braxton Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1483 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #1909 and #1398.
Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1610 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2488 and #2104.

Moved the opposite way to Godwin

Isak Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Godwin went from #1889 to #2921 while Isak went from #3036 to #1517.
Kim Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Godwin went from #2863 to #1279 while Kim went from #1168 to #4747.
Tayla Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Godwin went from #2863 to #1279 while Tayla went from #1458 to #4747.
Aksel Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Godwin went from #1224 to #2921 while Aksel went from #4052 to #1132.

Moved the same way as Godwin

Brooke Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Godwin went from #2863 to #4608 and Brooke from #2357 to #4608.
Ole Compare
Between 1999 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Godwin went from #2425 to #3449 and Ole from #1383 to #4789.

What's not yet available

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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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #409 in Republic of Ireland in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Godwin

Godwin at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Godwin across 2 official records

Godwin by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Godwin at a glance

Godwin across 2 official records

Godwin by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Godwin

Godwin and the names beside it

Godwin moved ahead of

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