Blu

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Blu: Recorded since 1996, it reached #798 in 2019, and it stood at #2,263 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#798highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2003	#3099
2007	#4294
2009	#3422
2011	#5785
2012	#5876
2013	#5742
2014	#5691
2015	#3615
2016	#2757
2017	#3229
2018	#3518
2019	#3151
2020	#4535
2021	#3192
2022	#3533
2023	#4056
2024	#4843

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 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2863 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: #798 among boys in England and Wales, in 2019 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Blu appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 376 births with the name.

Blu 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.

Blu'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	#2863 (1996)	#798 (2019)	#2263 (2024)	27 of 29	376 (1996–2024)	39 (2019)
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#2757 (2016)	#4843 (2024)	18 of 27	91 (1998–2024)	9 (2016)

Blu 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 Blu in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2000s	73	10 of 10	7
2010s	185	10 of 10	19
2020sbusiest	110	5 of 10	22

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 22 births a year.

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

Blu appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #798 in England and Wales in 2019.

Blu'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	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2263	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1207	23	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1084	26	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1184	23	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#993	28	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#798	39	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1158	23	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3229	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1289	20	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2757	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1234	22	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1380	18	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1486	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1404	17	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1801	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1749	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1511	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2211	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2087	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	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 1996 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #798, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 39 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

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 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

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.

Bliss · #1112, 29y
Blossom · #262, 30y
Blue · #1055, 29y
Bluebell · #836, 24y

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.

Maleeha · #799, 29y
Baran · #795, 29y
Morwenna · #801, 28y
Aniya · #802, 23y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Anna-Maria · #798, 29y
Talya · #798, 29y
Maleeha · #799, 29y
Jorawar · #796, 16y

Blu was ranked #798 in England and Wales · Boys in 2019. 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.

Blu 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 Blu without appearing here.

Blu moved ahead of

Morten Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2613 and #2390 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1486 and #4632.
Finlay Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5742 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2757 and #5785.
Geraldine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5691 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2757 and #5785.
Kari Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5742 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2757 and #5785.

Moved ahead of Blu

Blake Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3422 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #2893.
Harper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3099 and #4373 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #4294 and #1573.
Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3229 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #1711.
Malin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3533 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #2346.

Moved the opposite way to Blu

Garry Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Blu went from #2863 to #1207 while Garry went from #573 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Blu went from #2863 to #1207 while Graeme went from #755 to #4107.
Nicola Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Blu went from #2863 to #1207 while Nicola went from #2863 to #4107.
Brent Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Blu went from #2863 to #1084 while Brent went from #898 to #3449.

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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #798 in England and Wales in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Blu

Blu at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Blu across 2 official records

Blu by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Blu appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Blu

Blu and the names beside it

Blu moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Blu

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Blu at a glance

Blu across 2 official records

Blu by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Blu appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Blu

Blu and the names beside it

Blu moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Blu

Moved the opposite way to Blu