Kit

maleStatistical record

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

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

Kit: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #154 in 2022, and it stood at #468 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#154highest recorded position
12groupings 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	#2226
2005	#3382
2007	#5201
2008	#3005
2010	#4012
2012	#5876
2013	#5742
2014	#4003
2015	#5730
2016	#4763
2017	#4063
2018	#4684
2019	#5591
2020	#4535
2021	#2942
2022	#2488
2023	#3598
2024	#3015

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 boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #157 among boys in England and Wales, #290 among boys in Scotland, #305 among boys in Northern Ireland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #633 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 recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #154 among boys in England and Wales, in 2022 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #468 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Kit appears in 4 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 3,529 births with the name.

Kit 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.

Kit'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	#633 (1996)	#154 (2022)	#157 (2024)	29 of 29	3,529 (1996–2024)	341 (2022)
England and Wales · Girls	#2226 (2001)	#2226 (2001)	#3015 (2024)	18 of 24	93 (2001–2024)	10 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#435 (2018)	#433 (2020)	#468 (2025)	7 of 8	44 (2018–2025)	8 (2018)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#418 (2019)	#266 (2021)	#305 (2024)	3 of 6	15 (2019–2024)	7 (2021)

Kit 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 Kit in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	107	4 of 10	27
2000s	437	10 of 10	44
2010s	1,396	10 of 10	140
2020sbusiest	1,589	5 of 10	318

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 318 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2017 and 2018, when recorded births rose by 63, from 211 to 274.

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

Kit 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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #154 in England and Wales in 2022.

Kit'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	#3015	8	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#157	328	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#163	318	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#154	341	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#161	332	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#195	270	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#179	291	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#193	274	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#255	211	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#299	161	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#355	128	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#475	83	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#524	70	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#538	68	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#781	39	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#495	71	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#520	67	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#728	40	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#742	37	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#748	34	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#590	45	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#477	55	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#546	42	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#443	50	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#602	31	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#537	36	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#563	33	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#644	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#725	22	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#633	25	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#305	5	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#266	7	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#468	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#436	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#433	8	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#564	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#435	8	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#290	13	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 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #154, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 341 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

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.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 28 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.

Kishan · #379, 29y
Kiswa · #1056, 10y
Kitt · #1055, 21y
Kitty · #189, 60y

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.

Luan · #154, 29y
Alayna · #153, 30y
Lennon · #153, 31y
Scarlet · #155, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Luan · #154, 29y
Alayna · #153, 30y
Scarlet · #155, 29y
Xander · #153, 27y

Kit was ranked #154 in England and Wales · Boys in 2022. 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.

Kit 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 Kit without appearing here.

Kit moved ahead of

Kari Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5591 and #4686 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2488 and #5669.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #5891.
Dianne Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4003 and #4003 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2942 and #5581.
Kirsten Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5591 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2942 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Kit

Ezra Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4012 and #5707 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #5876 and #2969.
Amalie Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2226 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #3382 and #931.
Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2488 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #1959.
Marilyn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2488 and #2673 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #2063.

Moved the opposite way to Kit

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kit went from #633 to #157 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kit went from #633 to #157 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kit went from #633 to #157 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kit went from #633 to #157 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Kit

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kit went from #633 to #157 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kit went from #633 to #157 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kit went from #633 to #157 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kit went from #633 to #157 and Archie from #192 to #10.

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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #154 in England and Wales in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kit

Kit at a glance

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Kit across 4 official records

Kit by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Kit across 4 official records

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