Wen

maleStatistical record

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

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

Wen: Recorded since 1997, it reached #393 in 2002, and it stood at #4,608 in 2020.

2registrars recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#393highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2005–2015

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#2970
2006	#3548
2007	#2895
2008	#3860
2009	#2759
2011	#4764
2012	#4838
2014	#5691
2015	#5730

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 15 of the 24 years from 1997 to 2020.

In 2012: #718 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #3416 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1997–2020 · 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
Highest recorded2002–2012
Highest recorded position: #393 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2002 (recorded 2002–2012).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2020
Most recently recorded at #4608 among boys in England and Wales, in 2020.
England and Wales · Boys

Wen appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 15 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 100 births with the name.

Wen across 3 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.

Wen'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)	#1494 (2009)	#4608 (2020)	15 of 24	100 (1997–2020)	15 (2009)
England and Wales · Girls	#2970 (2005)	#2759 (2009)	#5730 (2015)	9 of 11	45 (2005–2015)	8 (2009)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#393 (2002)	#393 (2002)	#718 (2012)	3 of 11	11 (2002–2012)	4 (2002)

Wen 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 Wen 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
2000sbusiest	48	6 of 10	8
2010s	45	7 of 10	6
2020s	3	1 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

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

Wen 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 2020. Highest recorded position: #393 in Republic of Ireland in 2002.

Wen'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
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2039	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1801	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1494	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1828	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1885	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#623	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#393	4	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 2020, ranked in 17 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #393, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 15 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

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

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 5 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.

Eveleen · #393, 22y
Ion · #393, 16y
Jeannette · #393, 13y
Martins · #393, 15y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Ayomikun · #393, 24y
Toluwalase · #393, 19y
Amos · #392, 30y
Forrest · #392, 24y

Wen was ranked #393 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2002. 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.

Wen 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 Wen without appearing here.

Wen moved ahead of

Graeme Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3385 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1494 and #4527.
Finlay Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3860 and #3005 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2759 and #4564.
Tayla Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3385 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1885 and #3095.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2754 and #2754 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #3385 and #4052.

Moved ahead of Wen

Blake Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2759 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #4764 and #2893.
Karin Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2895 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #3860 and #2150.
Henrik Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2039 and #2194 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #3416 and #1962.
Hayden Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2895 and #1741.

Moved the opposite way to Wen

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Wen went from #2337 to #4608 while Albie went from #914 to #35.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Wen went from #2337 to #4608 while Alfie went from #92 to #18.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Wen went from #2337 to #4608 while Alfred went from #192 to #91.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Wen went from #2337 to #4608 while Archie went from #141 to #9.

Moved the same way as Wen

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Wen went from #2337 to #4608 and Aaron from #32 to #120.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Wen went from #2337 to #4608 and Adam from #20 to #34.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Wen went from #2337 to #4608 and Alan from #179 to #298.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2020 in England and Wales · Boys, Wen went from #2337 to #4608 and Alex from #43 to #108.

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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #393 in Republic of Ireland in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Wen

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Wen across 3 official records

Wen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Wen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Wen

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