Wing

maleStatistical record

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

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

Wing: Recorded since 1975, with a gap of 20 years, its highest recorded position is #503, and it stood at #5,119 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
50years from first to last
#503highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Wing's record

Absent from every published list for 20 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2013

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1646
1997	#1543
1998	#1571
1999	#3900
2000	#1995
2001	#2466
2002	#3409
2003	#3594
2005	#3382
2006	#2781
2007	#3667
2008	#5545
2009	#4564
2010	#4012
2011	#5785
2012	#4838
2013	#4050

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 11 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1975–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1646 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
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5119 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Wing appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 17 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 98 births with the name.

Wing 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.

Wing'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	#1458 (1996)	#1458 (1996)	#5119 (2024)	11 of 29	45 (1996–2024)	8 (1996)
England and Wales · Girls	#1646 (1996)	#1543 (1997)	#4050 (2013)	17 of 18	98 (1996–2013)	11 (1997)

Wing by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Wing in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	35	4 of 10	9
2000sbusiest	46	9 of 10	5
2010s	17	4 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 5 births a year.

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

Wing 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 1975 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #503 in Republic of Ireland in 1975.

Wing'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	#5119	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1995	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1571	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1543	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1646	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1458	8	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#503	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 1975 and 2024, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #503, first reached in 1975.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

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 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 20 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 21 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.

Nicolette · #503, 18y
Cherise · #502, 19y
Ata · #500, 23y
Ayobami · #500, 18y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Nicolette · #503, 18y
Natacha · #508, 11y
Dianna · #497, 14y
Elenor · #497, 25y

Wing was ranked #503 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1975. 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.

Wing 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 Wing without appearing here.

Wing moved ahead of

Finlay Compare
In 2012 they stood at #5785 and #5785 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #4050 and #5742.
Tracey Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4838 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #4050 and #5742.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3467 and #1962 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #2870 and #4052.
Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3009 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #2870 and #4052.

Moved ahead of Wing

Karin Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3667 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #5545 and #2150.
Jayden Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1571 and #1823 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #1261.
Tor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3158 and #4432 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #4805 and #2270.
Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2466 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #3409 and #938.

Moved the opposite way to Wing

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wing went from #1458 to #5119 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wing went from #1458 to #5119 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wing went from #1458 to #5119 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wing went from #1458 to #5119 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Wing

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wing went from #1458 to #5119 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wing went from #1458 to #5119 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wing went from #1458 to #5119 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Wing went from #1458 to #5119 and Alexander from #14 to #36.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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 1975 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #503 in Republic of Ireland in 1975. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Wing

Wing at a glance

What stands out in Wing's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Wing across 2 official records

Wing by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Wing appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Wing at a glance

What stands out in Wing's record

Wing across 2 official records

Wing by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Wing appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Wing

Wing and the names beside it

Wing moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Wing

Moved the opposite way to Wing

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