Testimony

maleStatistical record

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

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

1registrar recorded it
10times a registrar ranked it
14years from first to last
#3254highest recorded position
1grouping it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2011–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2011	#5785
2012	#5876
2014	#5691
2015	#4103
2021	#4634
2023	#3598

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 6 of the 13 years from 2011 to 2023.

Official data for England and Wales, 2011–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2011
First recorded at #5785 among girls in England and Wales in 2011 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2015–2024
Highest recorded position: #3254 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 2015–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3254 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Testimony appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 6 years beginning in 2011, and has registered 24 births with the name.

Testimony 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.

Testimony'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 · Girls	#5785 (2011)	#3598 (2023)	#3598 (2023)	6 of 13	24 (2011–2023)	6 (2023)
England and Wales · Boys	#4747 (2015)	#3254 (2024)	#3254 (2024)	4 of 10	19 (2015–2024)	6 (2024)

Testimony appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Names returning after an absence

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2011 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #3254 in England and Wales in 2024.

Testimony'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	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	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	#4634	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	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 2011 and 2024, ranked in 8 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #3,254, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 6 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

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.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
4 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
3separate stretches the record falls into3 separate stretches →
5 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#3,254position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
6births registered in its largest year, 2023Under 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.

Next in the catalogue

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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.

Arli · #3254, 12y
Elroy · #3254, 10y
Jones · #3254, 12y
Ousmane · #3254, 11y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Arli · #3254, 12y
Aaizah · #3229, 14y
Avreet · #3229, 11y
Rosie-Lee · #3229, 10y

Testimony 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 Testimony without appearing here.

Testimony moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #5687.
Donna Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #5687.
Lorraine Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #5687.
Shauna Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #4709.

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 2011 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #3254 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Testimony

Testimony at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Testimony across 2 official records

Testimony appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Testimony and the names beside it

Testimony moved ahead of

Testimony at a glance

Testimony across 2 official records

Testimony appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Testimony and the names beside it

Testimony moved ahead of