Breeze

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Breeze: Recorded since 1996, it reached #1,617 in 2001, and it stood at #4,843 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1617highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#2411
1998	#1697
1999	#1970
2000	#1831
2001	#1617
2002	#2540
2004	#3197
2005	#2438
2006	#2781
2007	#2627
2008	#2150
2009	#2019
2010	#3533
2011	#2636
2015	#5730
2016	#3609
2018	#3518
2020	#3899
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 girls in England and Wales in 20 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 #3126 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
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #1617 among girls in England and Wales, in 2001 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Breeze appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 20 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 144 births with the name.

Breeze 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.

Breeze'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	#3126 (1996)	#1617 (2001)	#4843 (2024)	20 of 29	144 (1996–2024)	12 (2009)
England and Wales · Boys	#4805 (2012)	#4789 (2022)	#4789 (2022)	2 of 11	6 (2012–2022)	3 (2012)

Breeze 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 Breeze in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	28	4 of 10	7
2000sbusiest	77	9 of 10	9
2010s	30	5 of 10	6
2020s	9	2 of 10	5

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

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

Breeze 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: #1617 in England and Wales in 2001.

Breeze'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
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2019	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2150	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1617	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1697	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	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 22 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,617, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 12 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
9 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
7separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
2 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#4,843position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
12births registered in its largest year, 2009Under 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

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Breege · #272, 25y
Breffni · #229, 22y
Brenda · #41, 71y

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.

Harini · #1617, 24y
Kubra · #1617, 22y
Llio · #1617, 25y
Masooma · #1617, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Delaney · #1617, 29y
Kubra · #1617, 22y
Llio · #1617, 25y
Masooma · #1617, 26y

Breeze 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 Breeze without appearing here.

Breeze moved ahead of

Kari Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3533 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2636 and #5785.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1831 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1617 and #3998.
Jeanette Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5730 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #3609 and #5785.
Kristine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5730 and #3252 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #3609 and #5785.

Moved ahead of Breeze

Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2636 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #1240.
Ezra Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2636 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #1279.
Luca Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2636 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #2328.
Meabh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2636 and #4049 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #4103.

Moved the opposite way to Breeze

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Breeze went from #3126 to #4843 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Breeze went from #3126 to #4843 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Breeze went from #3126 to #4843 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Breeze went from #3126 to #4843 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Breeze

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Breeze went from #3126 to #4843 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Breeze went from #3126 to #4843 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Breeze went from #3126 to #4843 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Breeze went from #3126 to #4843 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1617 in England and Wales in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Breeze

Breeze at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Breeze across 2 official records

Breeze by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Breeze 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

Breeze and the names beside it

Breeze moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Breeze

Moved the opposite way to Breeze

Moved the same way as Breeze

Breeze at a glance

Breeze across 2 official records

Breeze by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Breeze appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Breeze and the names beside it

Breeze moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Breeze

Moved the opposite way to Breeze

Moved the same way as Breeze