Red

maleStatistical record

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

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

Red: Recorded since 1996, it reached #1,425 in 2000, and it stood at #4,270 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1425highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2021

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#2770
2006	#4157
2009	#4564
2012	#3285
2015	#4736
2020	#5493
2021	#5581

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 24 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 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: #1425 among boys in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4270 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Red 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 1996, and has registered 158 births with the name.

Red 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.

Red'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	#2357 (1996)	#1425 (2000)	#4270 (2024)	24 of 29	158 (1996–2024)	10 (2012)
England and Wales · Girls	#2770 (1999)	#2770 (1999)	#5581 (2021)	7 of 23	30 (1999–2021)	7 (2012)

Red 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 Red in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	21	4 of 10	5
2000sbusiest	50	7 of 10	7
2010s	66	9 of 10	7
2020s	21	4 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

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

Red 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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1425 in England and Wales in 2000.

Red'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	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2728	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2319	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2964	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2117	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2194	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2318	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1425	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	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 1996 and 2024, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,425, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 10 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

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 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
8 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
5separate stretches the record falls into5 separate stretches →
1 yearlongest absence inside the recorded periodA single year missing →
#4,270position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
1registrars publishing it in more than one category listIn one registrar's lists →
10births registered in its largest year, 2012Under 25 births →

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.

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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.

Abdus · #1425, 20y
Kadir · #1425, 22y
Nahum · #1425, 26y
Sadiq · #1425, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Abdus · #1425, 20y
Hussam · #1425, 19y
Kadir · #1425, 22y
Mahfuz · #1425, 19y

Red 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 Red without appearing here.

Red moved ahead of

Kim Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #2319 and #4747.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2754 and #2754 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1892 and #4052.
Shannon Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2728 and #4702.
Brooke Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2964 and #4632.

Moved ahead of Red

Alma Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2770 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #4157 and #1087.
Aria Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2770 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #4157 and #1280.
Frida Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2770 and #3900 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #4157 and #1862.
Eabha Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4157 and #5061 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #2326.

Moved the opposite way to Red

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Red went from #2357 to #4270 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Red went from #2357 to #4270 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Red went from #2357 to #4270 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Red went from #2357 to #4270 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Red

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Red went from #2357 to #4270 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Red went from #2357 to #4270 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Red went from #2357 to #4270 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Red went from #2357 to #4270 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1425 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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