Pip

maleStatistical record

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

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

Pip: Recorded since 1997, its highest recorded position is #1,407, and it stood at #3,254 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#1407highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2011–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2011	#4049
2012	#5876
2013	#5742
2014	#4684
2015	#5730
2018	#2901
2019	#4001
2020	#4535
2021	#5581
2022	#4645
2023	#5687
2024	#3695

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 24 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 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 recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #1407 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1997–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Pip appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 191 births with the name.

Pip 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.

Pip'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)	#1407 (2023)	#3254 (2024)	24 of 28	191 (1997–2024)	18 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#4049 (2011)	#2901 (2018)	#3695 (2024)	12 of 14	51 (2011–2024)	8 (2018)

Pip 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 Pip in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2000s	34	7 of 10	5
2010s	87	10 of 10	9
2020sbusiest	62	5 of 10	12

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 12 births a year.

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

Pip 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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1407 in England and Wales in 2023.

Pip'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	#3695	6	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1407	18	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1781	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2301	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1492	16	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1506	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2445	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2175	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2964	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1920	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2117	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2199	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	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 1997 and 2024, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,407, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 18 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

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 4 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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Piper-Rose · #2300, 13y

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.

Iago · #1407, 21y
Rain · #1407, 24y
Betsi · #1406, 20y
Duha · #1406, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Rain · #1407, 24y
Sundus · #1406, 28y
Hazal · #1405, 29y
Constantine · #1404, 27y

Pip 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 Pip without appearing here.

Pip moved ahead of

Jeanette Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5730 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2901 and #5666.
Tayla Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2837 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1920 and #4685.
Erin Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2892 and #2892 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #2117 and #4805.
Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3373 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2175 and #4810.

Moved ahead of Pip

Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2425 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #3225 and #848.
Malin Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4049 and #4764 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #5876 and #3681.
Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1407 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #1132.
Mathias Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1892 and #2087 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #4333 and #2211.

Moved the opposite way to Pip

Aksel Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Pip went from #1892 to #3254 while Aksel went from #4052 to #1132.

Moved the same way as Pip

Kim Compare
Between 1997 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Pip went from #2337 to #3373 and Kim from #1174 to #4747.
Morten Compare
Between 1997 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Pip went from #2337 to #3373 and Morten from #2859 to #4747.
Tayla Compare
Between 1997 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Pip went from #2337 to #3373 and Tayla from #2022 to #4747.
Willow Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Pip went from #1892 to #3254 and Willow from #2870 to #4270.

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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1407 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Pip

Pip at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Pip across 2 official records

Pip by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Pip appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Pip and the names beside it

Pip moved ahead of

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Pip at a glance

Pip across 2 official records

Pip by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Pip appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Pip and the names beside it

Pip moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Pip

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