Bracken

maleStatistical record

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

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

Bracken: Recorded since 1997, it reached #1,391 in 2008, and it stood at #4,270 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
23times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#1391highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2013

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2411
2000	#3912
2001	#3262
2002	#3409
2003	#4373
2006	#1435
2007	#1573
2008	#1391
2009	#1668
2010	#4012
2011	#3549
2012	#3681
2013	#3536

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 10 of the 24 years from 2001 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2411 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2013
Highest recorded position: #1391 among girls in England and Wales, in 2008 (recorded 1997–2013).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4270 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Bracken appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 13 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 112 births with the name.

Bracken 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.

Bracken'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	#3134 (2001)	#2435 (2007)	#4270 (2024)	10 of 24	48 (2001–2024)	7 (2007)
England and Wales · Girls	#2411 (1997)	#1391 (2008)	#3536 (2013)	13 of 17	112 (1997–2013)	20 (2008)

Bracken 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 Bracken in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	6	1 of 10	6
2000sbusiest	83	8 of 10	10
2010s	23	4 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 10 births a year.

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

Bracken 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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1391 in England and Wales in 2008.

Bracken'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	#4270	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1668	16	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1391	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1573	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1435	17	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	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 1997 and 2024, ranked in 17 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,391, first reached in 2008.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 20 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

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 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 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.

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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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.

Daxton · #1391, 12y
Messiah · #1391, 18y
Zikra · #1391, 16y
Ziyaan · #1391, 13y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Rollo · #1391, 23y
Suha · #1391, 27y
Peri · #1392, 27y
Salima · #1392, 25y

Bracken 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 Bracken without appearing here.

Bracken moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 2005 they stood at #4373 and #3099 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1435 and #4157.
Josefine Compare
In 2005 they stood at #4373 and #4373 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1435 and #4157.
Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3549 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #5876.
Vicki Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4373 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #5876.

Moved ahead of Bracken

Mila Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2411 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #3912 and #1313.
Aksel Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2613 and #2892 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #4632 and #2079.
Gustav Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2613 and #3300 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #4632 and #2079.
Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3262 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #3409 and #938.

Moved the opposite way to Bracken

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2013 in England and Wales · Girls, Bracken went from #2411 to #3536 while Ada went from #1543 to #280.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2013 in England and Wales · Girls, Bracken went from #2411 to #3536 while Alma went from #2411 to #684.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2013 in England and Wales · Girls, Bracken went from #2411 to #3536 while Alyssa went from #506 to #161.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2013 in England and Wales · Girls, Bracken went from #2411 to #3536 while Amalie went from #3824 to #561.

Moved the same way as Bracken

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2013 in England and Wales · Girls, Bracken went from #2411 to #3536 and Abigail from #24 to #46.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2013 in England and Wales · Girls, Bracken went from #2411 to #3536 and Aimee from #61 to #189.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2013 in England and Wales · Girls, Bracken went from #2411 to #3536 and Aisling from #496 to #1864.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2013 in England and Wales · Girls, Bracken went from #2411 to #3536 and Alex from #179 to #882.

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 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1391 in England and Wales in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bracken

Bracken at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bracken across 2 official records

Bracken by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bracken 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

Bracken and the names beside it

Bracken moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bracken

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Bracken at a glance

Bracken across 2 official records

Bracken by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bracken appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Bracken and the names beside it

Bracken moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bracken

Moved the opposite way to Bracken

Moved the same way as Bracken