Rion

maleStatistical record

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

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

Rion: Recorded every year since 1999, it reached #334 in 2020, and it stood at #924 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#334highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1999–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#1850
2000	#3036
2001	#2587
2002	#1519
2003	#1962
2004	#1347
2005	#2418
2006	#2870
2007	#1756
2008	#2775
2009	#1859
2010	#1344
2011	#1251
2012	#1430
2013	#1462
2014	#2690
2015	#1673
2016	#1271
2017	#1812
2018	#1786
2019	#1745
2020	#1111
2021	#1448
2022	#1104
2023	#1139
2024	#924

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 1999 to 2024.

In 2023: #395 among boys in Northern Ireland, #1139 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1999–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #1850 among boys in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2020–2023
Highest recorded position: #334 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2020–2023).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #924 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Rion appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 358 births with the name.

Rion 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.

Rion'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	#1850 (1999)	#924 (2024)	#924 (2024)	26 of 26	358 (1999–2024)	34 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#518 (2005)	#491 (2010)	#779 (2022)	7 of 18	32 (2005–2022)	6 (2010)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#334 (2020)	#334 (2020)	#395 (2023)	2 of 4	7 (2020–2023)	4 (2020)

Rion 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 Rion in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	6	1 of 10	6
2000s	75	10 of 10	8
2010s	152	10 of 10	15
2020sbusiest	125	5 of 10	25

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 25 births a year.

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

Rion 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 3 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #334 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Rion'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	#924	34	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1139	25	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1104	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1448	17	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1111	24	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1745	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1786	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1812	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1271	21	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1673	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2690	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1462	16	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1430	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1251	20	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1344	18	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1859	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2775	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1756	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2418	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1347	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1519	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#334	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	6	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#491	6	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#532	5	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#518	3	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

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1999 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #334, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 34 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 21 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.

Rioghan · #202, 13y
Rioghnach · #150, 19y
Riona · #169, 49y
Rionach · #178, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Thom · #334, 24y
Farhan · #333, 29y
Jannat · #333, 29y
Jayla · #333, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Alby · #334, 29y
Briony · #334, 29y
Tariq · #334, 29y
Thom · #334, 24y

Rion was ranked #334 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2020. 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.

Rion 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 Rion without appearing here.

Rion moved ahead of

Graeme Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2870 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1859 and #4527.
Maddison Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3036 and #3036 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1347 and #3651.
Courtney Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2690 and #2690 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #1271 and #3079.
Robyn Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2587 and #2587 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1347 and #3009.

Moved ahead of Rion

Hunter Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1347 and #1878 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #2418 and #1135.
Cillian Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1347 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #2418 and #1190.
Arlo Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1850 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #3036 and #2142.
Theodor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1251 and #1522 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #1430 and #1086.

Moved the opposite way to Rion

Aaron Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rion went from #1850 to #924 while Aaron went from #36 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rion went from #1850 to #924 while Adam went from #21 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rion went from #1850 to #924 while Alan went from #232 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rion went from #1850 to #924 while Alex went from #45 to #171.

Moved the same way as Rion

Albie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rion went from #1850 to #924 and Albie from #750 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rion went from #1850 to #924 and Alfie from #64 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rion went from #1850 to #924 and Alfred from #150 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rion went from #1850 to #924 and Archie from #108 to #10.

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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #334 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rion

Rion at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rion across 3 official records

Rion by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Rion across 3 official records

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