Kole

maleStatistical record

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

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

Kole: Recorded every year since 1997, its highest recorded position is #348, and it stood at #478 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#348highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2337
1998	#2901
1999	#2425
2000	#2142
2001	#2220
2002	#2636
2003	#1962
2004	#2070
2005	#1851
2006	#1892
2007	#1361
2008	#2507
2009	#2126
2010	#1407
2011	#1209
2012	#1507
2013	#1247
2014	#1035
2015	#1586
2016	#946
2017	#1247
2018	#1097
2019	#1506
2020	#856
2021	#1004
2022	#1058
2023	#2160
2024	#1322

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #478 among boys in Scotland, #1322 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2337 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2011–2023
Highest recorded position: #348 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2011–2023).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1322 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Kole appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 418 births with the name.

Kole 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.

Kole'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	#2337 (1997)	#856 (2020)	#1322 (2024)	28 of 28	418 (1997–2024)	34 (2020)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#375 (2011)	#348 (2023)	#348 (2023)	3 of 13	10 (2011–2023)	4 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#637 (2020)	#637 (2020)	#755 (2021)	2 of 2	7 (2020–2021)	4 (2020)

Kole 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 Kole 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	78	10 of 10	8
2010s	209	10 of 10	21
2020sbusiest	120	5 of 10	24

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 24 births a year.

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

Kole 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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #348 in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Kole'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	#1322	20	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1058	27	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1004	29	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#856	34	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1506	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1097	25	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1247	21	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#946	31	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1586	15	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1035	27	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1247	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1507	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1209	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1407	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2126	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1361	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1851	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2070	7	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	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#348	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#375	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#478	6	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 1997 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #348, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 34 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 27 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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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.

Kyren · #348, 28y
Adelaide · #347, 31y
Andi · #347, 29y
Bowen · #346, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aishah · #348, 29y
Broghan · #348, 12y
Emma-Jayne · #348, 11y
Enoch · #348, 29y

Kole was ranked #348 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2023. 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.

Kole 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 Kole without appearing here.

Kole moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2160 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1322 and #5119.
Willow Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2901 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1851 and #3849.
Fredrik Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2160 and #1272 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1322 and #3254.
Ross Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2160 and #2160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1322 and #3254.

Moved ahead of Kole

Aksel Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1058 and #1224 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #1461.
Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1004 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1058 and #967.
Arlo Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2425 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #2142 and #2142.
Mathias Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1407 and #1620 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #1209 and #1209.

Moved the opposite way to Kole

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kole went from #2337 to #1322 while Aaron went from #32 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kole went from #2337 to #1322 while Adam went from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kole went from #2337 to #1322 while Alan went from #179 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kole went from #2337 to #1322 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Kole

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kole went from #2337 to #1322 and Albie from #914 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kole went from #2337 to #1322 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kole went from #2337 to #1322 and Alfred from #192 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kole went from #2337 to #1322 and Archie from #141 to #10.

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 4 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #348 in Northern Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kole

Kole at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kole across 3 official records

Kole by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Popularity data

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Kole at a glance

Kole across 3 official records

Kole by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kole appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kole

Kole and the names beside it

Kole moved ahead of

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