Sion

maleStatistical record

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

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

Sion: Recorded since 1994, it reached #285 in 2000, and it stood at #1,758 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
31years from first to last
#285highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2007

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2007	#5201

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1994–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #305 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: #285 among boys in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1758 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Sion 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 1,300 births with the name.

Sion 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.

Sion'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	#305 (1996)	#285 (2000)	#1758 (2024)	29 of 29	1,300 (1996–2024)	96 (2000)
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#3848 (1998)	#5201 (2007)	2 of 10	6 (1998–2007)	3 (1998)

Sion 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 Sion in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	332	4 of 10	83
2000sbusiest	628	10 of 10	63
2010s	278	10 of 10	28
2020s	62	5 of 10	12

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 63 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2000 and 2001, when recorded births fell by 33, from 96 to 63.

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

Sion 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 2 regions, from 1994 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #285 in England and Wales in 2000.

Sion'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	#1758	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1609	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2301	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1379	18	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1869	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1382	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1703	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1498	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1095	25	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1117	24	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#788	39	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#695	48	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#781	39	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#721	42	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#596	54	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#649	47	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#589	50	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#504	60	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#430	67	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#470	56	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#406	64	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#353	71	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#378	63	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#285	96	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#326	81	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#298	88	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#307	83	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#305	80	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#342	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1994 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #285, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 96 births, registered in England and Wales in 2000.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 2 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 2 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.

Esha · #285, 29y
Imaan · #285, 29y
Kathrin · #285, 27y
Farrell · #286, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Esha · #285, 29y
Imaan · #285, 29y
Santiago · #285, 30y
Charly · #284, 27y

Sion was ranked #285 in England and Wales · Boys in 2000. 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.

Sion 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 Sion without appearing here.

Sion moved ahead of

Grant Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1758 and #4270.
Brett Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2301 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1609 and #3449.
Ross Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #2160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1758 and #3254.
Gary Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #2546 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1758 and #2671.

Moved ahead of Sion

Matheo Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1609 and #2018 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3112 and #1363.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1609 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3112 and #1461.
Derek Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1379 and #1635 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #2301 and #1329.
Darragh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1382 and #1991 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1869 and #974.

Moved the opposite way to Sion

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sion went from #305 to #1758 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sion went from #305 to #1758 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sion went from #305 to #1758 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sion went from #305 to #1758 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Sion

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sion went from #305 to #1758 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sion went from #305 to #1758 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sion went from #305 to #1758 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sion went from #305 to #1758 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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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 2 regions, from 1994 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #285 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sion across 2 official records

Sion by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Sion across 2 official records

Sion by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Names published alongside Sion

Sion and the names beside it

Sion moved ahead of

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