Wei

maleStatistical record

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

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

Wei: Recorded since 1997, it reached #500 in 2003, and it was last ranked in 2016.

2registrars recorded it
23times a registrar ranked it
20years from first to last
#500highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2016

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3912
2004	#3725
2006	#5061
2008	#5545
2011	#5785
2016	#5785

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 16 of the 20 years from 1997 to 2016.

In 2003: #500 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #2189 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1997–2016 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2337 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2016
Most recently recorded at #5785 among girls in England and Wales, in 2016.
England and Wales · Girls

Wei appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 16 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 117 births with the name.

Wei 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.

Wei'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	#2337 (1997)	#1398 (2011)	#2804 (2016)	16 of 20	117 (1997–2016)	17 (2010)
England and Wales · Girls	#3912 (2000)	#3725 (2004)	#5785 (2016)	6 of 17	19 (2000–2016)	4 (2004)

Wei 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 Wei in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	4	1 of 10	4
2000s	58	9 of 10	6
2010sbusiest	55	6 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 9 births a year.

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

Wei 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 1997 to 2016. Highest recorded position: #500 in Republic of Ireland in 2003.

Wei'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
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3039	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1398	17	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1407	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2318	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1511	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2023	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	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 1997 and 2016, ranked in 16 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #500, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 17 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

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 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 6 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.

Ayobami · #500, 18y
Ayoola · #500, 13y
Blazej · #500, 12y
Chukwuebuka · #500, 19y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Abdel · #500, 26y
Arif · #500, 29y
Ayobami · #500, 18y
Ayoola · #500, 13y

Wei was ranked #500 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2003. 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.

Wei 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 Wei without appearing here.

Wei moved ahead of

Brooke Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2318 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1407 and #4678.
Graeme Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2870 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #2318 and #4527.
Brent Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4747 and #4747 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2804 and #4810.
Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4747 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2804 and #4810.

Moved ahead of Wei

Henrik Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1398 and #2194 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #3039 and #1962.
Aksel Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3039 and #3416 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #3315 and #2403.
Mathias Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1407 and #1620 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #1398 and #1209.

Moved the same way as Wei

Kim Compare
Between 1997 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Wei went from #2337 to #4747 and Kim from #1174 to #4747.
Morten Compare
Between 1997 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Wei went from #2337 to #4747 and Morten from #2859 to #4747.
Tayla Compare
Between 1997 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Wei went from #2337 to #4747 and Tayla from #2022 to #4747.
Brooke Compare
Between 1997 and 2013 in England and Wales · Boys, Wei went from #2337 to #3315 and Brooke from #1174 to #3822.

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 2 regions, from 1997 to 2016. Highest recorded position: #500 in Republic of Ireland in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

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Wei at a glance

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Popularity journey

Wei across 2 official records

Wei by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Wei across 2 official records

Wei by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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