John-Paul

maleStatistical record

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

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

John-Paul: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #240, and it stood at #3,688 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
42times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#240highest recorded position
10groupings 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	#818
1997	#964
1998	#1110
1999	#869
2000	#1703
2001	#1379
2002	#1322
2003	#1962
2004	#938
2005	#1095
2006	#1347
2007	#820
2008	#1242
2009	#1008
2010	#1241
2011	#1087
2012	#1086
2013	#1183
2014	#1327
2015	#1279
2016	#1431
2017	#1398
2018	#1382
2019	#1587
2020	#2228
2021	#2301
2022	#2755
2023	#2813
2024	#3688

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2019: #418 among boys in Northern Ireland, #506 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1587 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #818 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 recorded1998–2019
Highest recorded position: #240 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 1998 (recorded 1998–2019).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3688 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

John-Paul appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 466 births with the name.

John-Paul across 3 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.

John-Paul'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	#818 (1996)	#818 (1996)	#3688 (2024)	29 of 29	466 (1996–2024)	32 (2007)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#240 (1998)	#240 (1998)	#418 (2019)	8 of 22	29 (1998–2019)	5 (2014)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#506 (2004)	#423 (2006)	#506 (2019)	5 of 16	22 (2004–2019)	6 (2019)

John-Paul 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 John-Paul in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	63	4 of 10	16
2000s	168	10 of 10	17
2010sbusiest	198	10 of 10	20
2020s	37	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 20 births a year.

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

John-Paul 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #240 in Northern Ireland in 1998.

John-Paul'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	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2301	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2228	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1587	15	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1382	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1398	18	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1431	18	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1279	20	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1327	19	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1183	21	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1086	25	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1087	24	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1241	20	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1008	26	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1242	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#820	32	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1347	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1095	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#938	22	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1322	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1379	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1703	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#869	18	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1110	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#964	15	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#818	18	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#315	5	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#343	4	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#315	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#305	3	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#240	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	6	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#529	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #240, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 32 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 8 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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Johnathon · #238, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Frazer · #240, 29y
Tadas · #240, 33y
Arham · #241, 27y
Keely · #241, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Amirah · #240, 30y
Arjun · #240, 30y
Frazer · #240, 29y
Isra · #240, 30y

John-Paul was ranked #240 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 1998. 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.

John-Paul 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 John-Paul without appearing here.

John-Paul moved ahead of

Ashleigh Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1962 and #1962 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1095 and #2754.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #5119.
Garry Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1962 and #1771 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #938 and #1732.
Brett Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2301 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2755 and #3449.

Moved ahead of John-Paul

Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2755 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #1461.
Johannes Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2301 and #2493 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2755 and #1781.
Oisin Compare
In 1999 they stood at #869 and #906 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1703 and #731.
Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2301 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2755 and #2018.

Moved the opposite way to John-Paul

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, John-Paul went from #818 to #3688 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, John-Paul went from #818 to #3688 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, John-Paul went from #818 to #3688 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, John-Paul went from #818 to #3688 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as John-Paul

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, John-Paul went from #818 to #3688 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, John-Paul went from #818 to #3688 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, John-Paul went from #818 to #3688 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, John-Paul went from #818 to #3688 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #240 in Northern Ireland in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

John-Paul

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John-Paul across 3 official records

John-Paul by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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John-Paul across 3 official records

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