Jaap

maleStatistical record

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

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

1registrar recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
10years from first to last
#2605highest recorded position

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2017–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2017	#4063
2020	#3117
2021	#4634
2022	#4645
2023	#2927
2024	#3318
2025	#2605

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 5 of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025.

Official data for England and Wales, 2016–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2016
First recorded at #4023 among boys in England and Wales in 2016 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2017–2025
Highest recorded position: #2605 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025 (recorded 2017–2025).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #2605 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Jaap appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 7 ranked years and 45 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Boys, from 2016.

Jaap 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.

Jaap'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	#4023 (2016)	#3684 (2025)	#3684 (2025)	5 of 10	19 (2016–2025)	5 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#4063 (2017)	#2605 (2025)	#2605 (2025)	7 of 9	45 (2017–2025)	10 (2025)

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2016 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #2605 in England and Wales in 2025.

Jaap'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#2605	10	High	Verified
2025	England and Wales	male	#3684	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#3318	7	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2016 and 2025, ranked in 9 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,605, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 10 births, registered in England and Wales in 2025.

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

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.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
7 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
2separate stretches the record falls into2 separate stretches →
1 yearlongest absence inside the recorded periodA single year missing →
#2,605position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
1registrars publishing it in more than one category listIn one registrar's lists →
10births registered in its largest year, 2025Under 25 births →

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

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Chisimdi · #2605, 8y
Elani · #2605, 13y
Elsie-Marie · #2605, 11y
Liyan · #2605, 12y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Chisimdi · #2605, 8y
Elsie-Marie · #2605, 11y
Liyan · #2605, 12y
Saavi · #2605, 10y

Jaap 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Jaap without appearing here.

Jaap moved ahead of

Freddie Compare
In 2024 they stood at #3318 and #3318 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2025 that had become #2605 and #5927.
Tracy Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2927 and #5687.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #5891.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #5891.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2016 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #2605 in England and Wales in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jaap

Jaap at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jaap across 2 official records

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Jaap and the names beside it

Jaap moved ahead of

Jaap at a glance

Jaap across 2 official records

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Jaap and the names beside it

Jaap moved ahead of