Bryony

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Bryony: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #129, and it stood at #1,198 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#129highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#129
1997	#139
1998	#144
1999	#152
2000	#194
2001	#240
2002	#223
2003	#254
2004	#331
2005	#376
2006	#431
2007	#444
2008	#500
2009	#530
2010	#586
2011	#681
2012	#789
2013	#1075
2014	#814
2015	#1114
2016	#975
2017	#1002
2018	#1200
2019	#1252
2020	#1200
2021	#936
2022	#1326
2023	#1705
2024	#1198

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2008: #439 among girls in Northern Ireland, #500 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #129 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: #129 among girls in England and Wales, in 1996 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1198 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Bryony 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 3,167 births with the name.

Bryony 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.

Bryony'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	#129 (1996)	#129 (1996)	#1198 (2024)	29 of 29	3,167 (1996–2024)	362 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#358 (1997)	#358 (1997)	#439 (2008)	3 of 12	9 (1997–2008)	3 (1997)

Bryony 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 Bryony in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	1,314	4 of 10	329
2000sbusiest	1,309	10 of 10	131
2010s	411	10 of 10	41
2020s	133	5 of 10	27

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 131 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1999 and 2000, when recorded births fell by 81, from 301 to 220.

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

Bryony 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 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #129 in England and Wales in 1996.

Bryony'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	#1198	28	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1705	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1326	24	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#936	37	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1200	27	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1252	26	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1200	28	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1002	36	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#975	37	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1114	31	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#814	47	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1075	33	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#789	49	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#681	57	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#586	67	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#530	75	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#500	77	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#444	92	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#431	95	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#376	107	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#331	117	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#254	167	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#223	192	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#240	167	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#194	220	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#152	301	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#144	317	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#139	334	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#129	362	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #129, first reached in 1996.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 362 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 1 year 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.

Brynjulf · #209, 20y
Brynley · #1280, 28y
Bryson · #375, 25y
Buddy · #282, 27y

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.

Fillip · #126, 28y
Lotta · #132, 34y
Siun · #132, 28y
Tierna · #139, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Alexa · #130, 29y
Arianna · #130, 31y
Carys · #130, 29y
Alida · #127, 35y

Bryony was ranked #129 in England and Wales · Girls in 1996. 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.

Bryony 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 Bryony without appearing here.

Bryony moved ahead of

Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1326 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1705 and #2689.
Courtney Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1705 and #1410 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1198 and #1894.
Shannon Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1252 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1200 and #1846.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1705 and #1469 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1198 and #1819.

Moved ahead of Bryony

Andrea Compare
In 2021 they stood at #936 and #1039 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1326 and #796.
Kathleen Compare
In 2021 they stood at #936 and #983 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1326 and #796.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #681 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #789 and #284.
Roisin Compare
In 2014 they stood at #814 and #832 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1114 and #643.

Moved the opposite way to Bryony

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bryony went from #129 to #1198 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bryony went from #129 to #1198 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bryony went from #129 to #1198 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bryony went from #129 to #1198 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Bryony

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bryony went from #129 to #1198 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bryony went from #129 to #1198 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bryony went from #129 to #1198 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bryony went from #129 to #1198 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #129 in England and Wales in 1996. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bryony

Bryony at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bryony across 2 official records

Bryony by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bryony appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Bryony at a glance

Bryony across 2 official records

Bryony by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Bryony

Bryony and the names beside it

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