Blossom

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Blossom: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #262, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#262highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#2738
1998	#3848
1999	#3225
2000	#3912
2001	#2783
2002	#3409
2003	#2436
2004	#1383
2005	#1082
2006	#869
2007	#882
2008	#916
2009	#630
2010	#549
2011	#673
2012	#503
2013	#450
2014	#446
2015	#478
2016	#527
2017	#431
2018	#365
2019	#362
2020	#344
2021	#336
2022	#301
2023	#262
2024	#333

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

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

In 2024: #333 among girls in England and Wales, #541 among girls in Scotland, #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 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: #262 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Blossom appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,884 births with the name.

Blossom 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.

Blossom'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	#2683 (1996)	#262 (2023)	#333 (2024)	29 of 29	1,884 (1996–2024)	171 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#716 (2019)	#608 (2025)	#608 (2025)	5 of 7	24 (2019–2025)	5 (2020)

Blossom 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 Blossom in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	17	4 of 10	4
2000s	221	10 of 10	22
2010s	926	10 of 10	93
2020sbusiest	720	5 of 10	144

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 144 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births fell by 42, from 171 to 129.

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

Blossom 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #262 in England and Wales in 2023.

Blossom'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	#333	129	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#262	171	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#301	149	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#336	141	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#344	130	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#362	120	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#365	124	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#431	102	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#527	81	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#478	90	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#446	98	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#450	93	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#503	87	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#673	58	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#549	73	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#630	59	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#916	35	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#882	35	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#869	34	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1082	23	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1383	16	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2436	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
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 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #262, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 171 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, 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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Blue · #1055, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Emmeline · #262, 33y
Sacha · #261, 32y
Brady · #264, 30y
Ocean · #260, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Clarke · #262, 29y
Dhruv · #262, 30y
Kayce · #262, 18y
Aminah · #263, 30y

Blossom was ranked #262 in England and Wales · Girls in 2023. 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.

Blossom 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 Blossom without appearing here.

Blossom moved ahead of

Ronny Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3912 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1383 and #4598.
Freddie Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3912 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #869 and #3548.
Rian Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3409 and #3409 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1383 and #3725.
Josefine Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3225 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #2436 and #4373.

Moved ahead of Blossom

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #673 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #503 and #284.

Moved the opposite way to Blossom

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Blossom went from #2683 to #333 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Blossom went from #2683 to #333 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Blossom went from #2683 to #333 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Blossom went from #2683 to #333 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Blossom

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Blossom went from #2683 to #333 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Blossom went from #2683 to #333 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Blossom went from #2683 to #333 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Blossom went from #2683 to #333 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #262 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Blossom

Blossom at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Blossom across 2 official records

Blossom by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Blossom at a glance

Blossom across 2 official records

Blossom by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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