Frazer

maleStatistical record

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

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

Frazer: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #240, and it stood at #727 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
42times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#240highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#279
1997	#250
1998	#266
1999	#303
2000	#319
2001	#378
2002	#426
2003	#490
2004	#523
2005	#457
2006	#490
2007	#422
2008	#405
2009	#427
2010	#392
2011	#439
2012	#484
2013	#504
2014	#532
2015	#506
2016	#621
2017	#574
2018	#665
2019	#650
2020	#1019
2021	#854
2022	#949
2023	#965
2024	#814

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #727 among boys in Scotland, #814 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #279 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 recorded1997–2021
Highest recorded position: #240 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 1998 (recorded 1997–2021).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #814 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Frazer appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,981 births with the name.

Frazer 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.

Frazer'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	#279 (1996)	#250 (1997)	#814 (2024)	29 of 29	1,981 (1996–2024)	118 (1997)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#271 (1997)	#240 (1998)	#433 (2021)	12 of 25	46 (1997–2021)	7 (2014)

Frazer 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 Frazer in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	411	4 of 10	103
2000s	686	10 of 10	69
2010sbusiest	718	10 of 10	72
2020s	166	5 of 10	33

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 72 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births fell by 27, from 54 to 27.

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

Frazer 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #240 in Northern Ireland in 1998.

Frazer'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	#814	40	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#965	31	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#949	32	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#854	36	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1019	27	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#650	54	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#665	52	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#574	66	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#621	57	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#506	76	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#532	71	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#504	74	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#484	79	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#439	87	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#392	102	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#427	89	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#405	91	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#422	84	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#490	62	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#457	62	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#523	50	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#490	49	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#426	53	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#378	63	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#319	83	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#303	89	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#266	105	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#250	118	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#279	99	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#264	7	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#403	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#293	5	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#265	4	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#280	3	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#244	4	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#240	4	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#271	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #240, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 118 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 28 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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Freda · #218, 50y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

John-Paul · #240, 29y
Tadas · #240, 33y
Arham · #241, 27y
Keely · #241, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Amirah · #240, 30y
Arjun · #240, 30y
Isra · #240, 30y
John-Paul · #240, 29y

Frazer was ranked #240 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 1998. 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.

Frazer 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 Frazer without appearing here.

Frazer moved ahead of

Gregory Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1019 and #921 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #854 and #1078.
Scott Compare
In 2023 they stood at #965 and #691 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #814 and #1025.
Kristian Compare
In 2023 they stood at #965 and #910 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #814 and #1000.
Mitchell Compare
In 2022 they stood at #949 and #878 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #965 and #1139.

Moved ahead of Frazer

Theodor Compare
In 2019 they stood at #650 and #663 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1019 and #627.
Hunter Compare
In 2011 they stood at #439 and #473 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #484 and #238.
Kasper Compare
In 2015 they stood at #506 and #557 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #621 and #435.
Erik Compare
In 2013 they stood at #504 and #524 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #532 and #367.

Moved the opposite way to Frazer

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Frazer went from #279 to #814 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Frazer went from #279 to #814 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Frazer went from #279 to #814 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Frazer went from #279 to #814 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Frazer

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Frazer went from #279 to #814 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Frazer went from #279 to #814 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Frazer went from #279 to #814 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Frazer went from #279 to #814 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #240 in Northern Ireland in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Frazer

Frazer at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Frazer across 2 official records

Frazer by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Frazer 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 Frazer

Frazer and the names beside it

Frazer moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Frazer

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Moved the same way as Frazer

Frazer at a glance

Frazer across 2 official records

Frazer by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Frazer 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 Frazer

Frazer and the names beside it

Frazer moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Frazer

Moved the opposite way to Frazer

Moved the same way as Frazer