Bleu

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Bleu: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #727, reached in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#727highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#3262
2009	#4564
2012	#4171
2013	#4050
2014	#5691
2016	#2757
2017	#3229
2018	#2090
2019	#3541
2020	#1618
2021	#1785
2022	#2888
2023	#2504
2024	#3318

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 22 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #727 among boys in Scotland, #857 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #1821 among boys in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3318 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Bleu appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 22 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 404 births with the name.

Bleu 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.

Bleu'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	#1821 (1998)	#731 (2022)	#857 (2024)	22 of 27	404 (1998–2024)	45 (2022)
England and Wales · Girls	#3262 (2001)	#1618 (2020)	#3318 (2024)	14 of 24	115 (2001–2024)	18 (2020)

Bleu 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 Bleu in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	6	1 of 10	6
2000s	29	6 of 10	5
2010s	168	10 of 10	17
2020sbusiest	201	5 of 10	40

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 40 births a year.

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

Bleu 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 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #727 in Scotland in 2024.

Bleu'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	#3318	7	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#857	37	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#814	40	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#731	45	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1785	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#790	41	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1618	18	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#812	38	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1113	24	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1013	28	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3229	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1097	26	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2757	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1363	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1673	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1920	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1367	18	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2039	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2199	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1821	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #727, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 45 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

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 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 26 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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Blessing · #266, 29y
Blimi · #2062, 17y
Bliss · #1112, 29y

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.

Afnan · #727, 27y
Cash · #727, 20y
Colbie · #727, 22y
Geordie · #727, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aditi · #727, 30y
Afnan · #727, 27y
Arsalan · #727, 29y
Ayoub · #727, 29y

Bleu was ranked #727 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. 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.

Bleu 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 Bleu without appearing here.

Bleu moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3541 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1618 and #5493.
Geraldine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5691 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2757 and #5785.
Kristine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5691 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2757 and #5785.
Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3541 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1618 and #4535.

Moved ahead of Bleu

Amalie Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3262 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #806.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #1743.
Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1785 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2888 and #1452.
Filip Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1821 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #2501 and #1096.

Moved the opposite way to Bleu

Aaron Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bleu went from #1821 to #857 while Aaron went from #31 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bleu went from #1821 to #857 while Adam went from #21 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bleu went from #1821 to #857 while Alan went from #196 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bleu went from #1821 to #857 while Alex went from #46 to #171.

Moved the same way as Bleu

Albie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bleu went from #1821 to #857 and Albie from #716 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bleu went from #1821 to #857 and Alfie from #71 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bleu went from #1821 to #857 and Alfred from #174 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Bleu went from #1821 to #857 and Archie from #120 to #10.

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 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #727 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bleu

Bleu at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bleu across 2 official records

Bleu by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Bleu appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Bleu

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Bleu moved ahead of

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Bleu at a glance

Bleu across 2 official records

Bleu by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Bleu 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 Bleu

Bleu and the names beside it

Bleu moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bleu

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