Lawson

maleStatistical record

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

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

Lawson: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #234 in 2018, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#234highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1235
1997	#1257
1998	#2419
1999	#1505
2000	#1167
2001	#1202
2002	#1077
2003	#865
2004	#938
2005	#666
2006	#885
2007	#742
2008	#699
2009	#831
2010	#970
2011	#701
2012	#476
2013	#450
2014	#409
2015	#416
2016	#477
2017	#526
2018	#465
2019	#552
2020	#739
2021	#618
2022	#656
2023	#1018
2024	#857

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 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #478 among boys in Scotland, #857 among boys in England and Wales.

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

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1235 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 recorded2007–2023
Highest recorded position: #234 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2018 (recorded 2007–2023).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Lawson 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 1,273 births with the name.

Lawson 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.

Lawson'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	#1235 (1996)	#409 (2014)	#857 (2024)	29 of 29	1,273 (1996–2024)	99 (2014)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#357 (2007)	#234 (2018)	#395 (2023)	6 of 17	29 (2007–2023)	8 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#646 (2019)	#646 (2019)	#676 (2025)	3 of 7	11 (2019–2025)	4 (2019)

Lawson 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 Lawson in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	32	4 of 10	8
2000s	263	10 of 10	26
2010sbusiest	755	10 of 10	76
2020s	223	5 of 10	45

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 76 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2011 and 2012, when recorded births rose by 36, from 45 to 81.

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

Lawson 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: #234 in Northern Ireland in 2018.

Lawson'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	#857	37	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1018	29	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#656	53	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#618	60	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#739	44	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#552	68	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#465	87	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#526	74	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#477	85	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#416	99	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#409	99	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#450	88	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#476	81	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#701	45	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#970	29	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#831	34	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#699	42	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#742	37	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#885	27	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#666	39	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#938	22	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#865	23	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1077	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1202	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1167	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1257	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#295	6	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#274	6	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#234	8	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#357	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	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 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #234, first reached in 2018.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 99 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, 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.

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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.

Alasdair · #234, 30y
Annalise · #233, 31y
Egle · #235, 26y
Fern · #233, 32y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Conlan · #234, 24y
Rogan · #234, 28y
Annalise · #233, 31y
Haniya · #233, 27y

Lawson was ranked #234 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2018. 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.

Lawson 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 Lawson without appearing here.

Lawson moved ahead of

Isak Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2419 and #2419 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1167 and #3036.
Kim Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2419 and #1367 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1505 and #2943.
Graeme Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1505 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1167 and #2501.
Barry Compare
In 2004 they stood at #938 and #815 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #666 and #1617.

Moved ahead of Lawson

Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1257 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2419 and #924.
Hunter Compare
In 2009 they stood at #831 and #848 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #970 and #625.
Arlo Compare
In 2005 they stood at #666 and #766 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #885 and #582.
Cooper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #666 and #678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #885 and #677.

Moved the opposite way to Lawson

Brent Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Lawson went from #1235 to #656 while Brent went from #898 to #3449.
Tor Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Lawson went from #1235 to #656 while Tor went from #2020 to #3449.
Brooke Compare
Between 1996 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Lawson went from #1235 to #739 while Brooke went from #2357 to #4608.
Ole Compare
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Lawson went from #2419 to #656 while Ole went from #2901 to #4789.

Moved the same way as Lawson

Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lawson went from #1505 to #857 and Arlo from #2943 to #15.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lawson went from #1505 to #857 and Harper from #2425 to #1402.
Kasper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lawson went from #1505 to #857 and Kasper from #2425 to #529.
Rune Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lawson went from #1505 to #857 and Rune from #2943 to #1460.

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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #234 in Northern Ireland in 2018. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lawson

Lawson at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lawson across 3 official records

Lawson by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Lawson appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Lawson

Lawson and the names beside it

Lawson moved ahead of

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Lawson at a glance

Lawson across 3 official records

Lawson by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Lawson appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Lawson

Lawson and the names beside it

Lawson moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Lawson

Moved the opposite way to Lawson

Moved the same way as Lawson