London

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

London: Recorded since 2004, it reached #1,484 in 2013, and it stood at #2,253 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#1484highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2007–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#3667
2008	#3005
2009	#3031
2010	#2392
2011	#1903
2012	#1525
2013	#1484
2014	#2203
2015	#2945
2016	#2547
2017	#4063
2018	#3178
2019	#2458
2020	#3117
2021	#2073
2022	#1948
2023	#3598
2024	#2253

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 18 of the 21 years from 2004 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2004–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2004
First recorded at #3651 among boys in England and Wales in 2004 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2007–2024
Highest recorded position: #1484 among girls in England and Wales, in 2013 (recorded 2007–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2253 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

London appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 18 years beginning in 2004, and has registered 103 births with the name.

London 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.

London'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	#3651 (2004)	#1756 (2012)	#4270 (2024)	18 of 21	103 (2004–2024)	13 (2012)
England and Wales · Girls	#3667 (2007)	#1484 (2013)	#2253 (2024)	18 of 18	188 (2007–2024)	21 (2013)

London 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 London in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	12	3 of 10	4
2010sbusiest	64	10 of 10	6
2020s	27	5 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 6 births a year.

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

London appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1484 in England and Wales in 2013.

London'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	#2253	12	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1948	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2728	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2945	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2203	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2690	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1484	21	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1525	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1756	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1903	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	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 2004 and 2024, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,484, first reached in 2013.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 21 births, registered in England and Wales in 2013.

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 2 years.

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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Lonnie · #1688, 18y

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.

Asmin · #1483, 16y
Boruch · #1485, 23y
Daoud · #1485, 23y
Fabrizio · #1485, 18y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Asmin · #1483, 16y
Kayden-Lee · #1483, 17y
Kyden · #1483, 21y
Radley · #1486, 21y

London 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 London without appearing here.

London moved ahead of

Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2253 and #5891.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2073 and #5581.
Kristine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3031 and #3031 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2392 and #5707.
Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2945 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2547 and #5785.

Moved ahead of London

Gunnar Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2734 and #3040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #3412 and #1786.
Fiadh Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2547 and #2757 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4063 and #2502.
Marilyn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1948 and #2673 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #2063.
Daithi Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2730 and #3990 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4789 and #4001.

Moved the opposite way to London

Tyler Compare
Between 2007 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, London went from #3667 to #2073 while Tyler went from #706 to #5581.
Fiadh Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, London went from #1484 to #2253 while Fiadh went from #5742 to #374.
Noah Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, London went from #1484 to #2253 while Noah went from #5742 to #1743.

Moved the same way as London

Teddy Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, London went from #1484 to #2253 and Teddy from #2460 to #5891.

What's not yet available

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1484 in England and Wales in 2013. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

London

London at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

London across 2 official records

London by decade in England and Wales · Boys

London appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

London and the names beside it

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London at a glance

London across 2 official records

London by decade in England and Wales · Boys

London appears in

What the record shows

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

London and the names beside it

London moved ahead of

Moved ahead of London

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