Saint

maleStatistical record

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

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

Saint: Recorded since 2006, its highest recorded position is #403, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
20times a registrar ranked it
19years from first to last
#403highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2017–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2017	#4763
2019	#5591
2021	#4634
2022	#4645
2023	#4056

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 13 of the 19 years from 2006 to 2024.

In 2024: #403 among boys in England and Wales, #619 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2006–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2006
First recorded at #4052 among boys in England and Wales in 2006 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2006–2024
Highest recorded position: #403 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 2006–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #403 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Saint appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 13 years beginning in 2006, and has registered 460 births with the name.

Saint 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.

Saint'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	#4052 (2006)	#403 (2024)	#403 (2024)	13 of 19	460 (2006–2024)	101 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#4763 (2017)	#4056 (2023)	#4056 (2023)	5 of 7	20 (2017–2023)	5 (2023)

Saint 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 Saint in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	6	2 of 10	3
2010s	86	6 of 10	14
2020sbusiest	368	5 of 10	74

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 74 births a year.

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

Saint 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 2006 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #403 in England and Wales in 2024.

Saint'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	#403	101	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#439	90	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#540	71	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#627	59	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#706	47	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#856	35	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#985	29	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2324	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 3 registrars between 2006 and 2024, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #403, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 101 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

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 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, and 18 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 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.

Danas · #403, 17y
Jokubas · #403, 18y
Kaelum · #403, 12y
Simas · #403, 13y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Danas · #403, 17y
Jokubas · #403, 18y
Nedas · #403, 16y
Simas · #403, 13y

Saint was ranked #403 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. 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.

Saint 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 Saint without appearing here.

Saint moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3478 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #985 and #4749.
Isak Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2324 and #2052 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #985 and #4749.
Madison Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4647 and #2892 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #985 and #4749.
Courtney Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3478 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #985 and #3959.

Moved the opposite way to Saint

Aaron Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saint went from #4052 to #403 while Aaron went from #44 to #154.
Alan Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saint went from #4052 to #403 while Alan went from #251 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saint went from #4052 to #403 while Alex went from #57 to #171.
Alexander Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saint went from #4052 to #403 while Alexander went from #24 to #36.

Moved the same way as Saint

Aksel Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saint went from #4052 to #403 and Aksel from #4052 to #1132.
Albie Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saint went from #4052 to #403 and Albie from #421 to #19.
Alfred Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saint went from #4052 to #403 and Alfred from #151 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saint went from #4052 to #403 and Archie from #40 to #10.

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 3 regions, from 2006 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #403 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Saint across 2 official records

Saint by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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