Sheikh

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Sheikh: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #443 in 2004, and it stood at #747 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#443highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1997	#1287
1998	#1697
1999	#1393
2000	#1475
2001	#1107
2002	#1442
2003	#1083
2004	#1715
2005	#1934
2006	#1153
2007	#1296
2008	#1914
2009	#1909
2010	#1653
2011	#2432
2012	#1583
2013	#2313
2014	#2058
2015	#2496
2016	#1416
2017	#2090
2018	#2901
2019	#2869
2020	#2300
2021	#3961
2022	#4645
2023	#2504
2024	#2000

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 girls in England and Wales in every year 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 #2350 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #443 among boys in England and Wales, in 2004 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2000 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Sheikh appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 921 births with the name.

Sheikh 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.

Sheikh'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	#704 (1996)	#443 (2004)	#747 (2024)	29 of 29	921 (1996–2024)	61 (2004)
England and Wales · Girls	#2350 (1996)	#1083 (2003)	#2000 (2024)	29 of 29	376 (1996–2024)	23 (2006)

Sheikh 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 Sheikh in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	92	4 of 10	23
2000sbusiest	367	10 of 10	37
2010s	292	10 of 10	29
2020s	170	5 of 10	34

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 37 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2004 and 2005, when recorded births fell by 29, from 61 to 32.

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

Sheikh 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: #443 in England and Wales in 2004.

Sheikh'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	#2000	14	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#747	46	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#965	31	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#949	32	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#854	36	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2300	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1085	25	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1113	24	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1284	20	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1097	26	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1416	23	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#974	30	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2496	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#821	38	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#854	35	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2313	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#837	36	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1583	19	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1152	23	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2432	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#852	34	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1653	17	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1055	26	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1909	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#667	46	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1914	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#818	34	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1296	21	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#820	32	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1153	23	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#698	38	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1934	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#766	32	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1715	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#443	61	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1083	21	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#653	33	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1442	13	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#671	29	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#617	30	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1475	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#579	32	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1393	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#697	24	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1697	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#761	21	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1287	14	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#661	25	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#704	22	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 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #443, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 61 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

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.

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.

Shehryar · #2266, 12y
Sheik · #1104, 24y
Sheila · #37, 61y
Sheindy · #2025, 23y

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.

Ashanti · #445, 29y
Gianni · #445, 29y
Iram · #441, 28y
Jovan · #446, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Christiana · #443, 29y
Emanuela · #443, 26y
Oluwadamilola · #443, 28y
Yana · #443, 29y

Sheikh was ranked #443 in England and Wales · Boys in 2004. 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.

Sheikh 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 Sheikh without appearing here.

Sheikh moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2300 and #5493.
Lorraine Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #4645 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2504 and #5687.
Tracy Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2504 and #5687.
Brittany Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4645 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2000 and #4843.

Moved ahead of Sheikh

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2300 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #1286.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2300 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #1785.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2090 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2901 and #1436.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2058 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2496 and #1240.

Moved the opposite way to Sheikh

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheikh went from #1287 to #2000 while Blake went from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheikh went from #1287 to #2000 while Ezra went from #3824 to #1302.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheikh went from #1393 to #2000 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheikh went from #1393 to #2000 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.

Moved the same way as Sheikh

Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Sheikh went from #661 to #965 and Kelly from #1454 to #3523.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheikh went from #2350 to #3961 and Carol from #802 to #3519.
Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheikh went from #1697 to #2504 and Josefine from #3848 to #5687.
Tyler Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Sheikh went from #2350 to #3961 and Tyler from #230 to #5581.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #443 in England and Wales in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sheikh

Sheikh at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sheikh across 2 official records

Sheikh by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Sheikh appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Sheikh and the names beside it

Sheikh moved ahead of

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Sheikh at a glance

Sheikh across 2 official records

Sheikh by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Sheikh appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Sheikh

Sheikh and the names beside it

Sheikh moved ahead of

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