Favour

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Favour: Recorded every year since 2001, it reached #254 in 2005, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
60times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#254highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Favour's record

2 registrars publish it in more than one category list — an observation about those lists, not about the name. Names published across category lists

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2003–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2003	#3099
2004	#2278
2005	#802
2006	#835
2007	#1050
2008	#937
2009	#806
2010	#1218
2011	#937
2012	#1075
2013	#1048
2014	#1367
2015	#1601
2016	#1327
2017	#1817
2018	#1711
2019	#2458
2020	#1939
2021	#2341
2022	#3970
2023	#2063
2024	#1819

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 Republic of Ireland in 16 of the 25 years from 2001 to 2025.

In 2016: #750 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1327 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2001–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2001
First recorded at #606 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 2001 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded2002–2009
Highest recorded position: #254 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2005 (recorded 2002–2009).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Favour appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 22 ranked years and 488 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 2001.

Favour across 4 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.

Favour'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#606 (2001)	#277 (2005)	#885 (2025)	16 of 25	120 (2001–2025)	17 (2008)
England and Wales · Girls	#3099 (2003)	#802 (2005)	#1819 (2024)	22 of 22	488 (2003–2024)	43 (2009)
England and Wales · Boys	#2174 (2005)	#1688 (2011)	#2921 (2024)	15 of 20	107 (2005–2024)	13 (2011)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#313 (2002)	#254 (2005)	#429 (2009)	7 of 8	40 (2002–2009)	11 (2005)

Favour 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 Favour in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000sbusiest	189	7 of 10	27
2010s	240	10 of 10	24
2020s	59	5 of 10	12

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 27 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2004 and 2005, when recorded births rose by 27, from 8 to 35.

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

Favour 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 2001 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #254 in Republic of Ireland in 2005.

Favour'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	#1819	16	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2063	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1939	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1711	17	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1817	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1327	25	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1601	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1367	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1048	34	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2216	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1075	32	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3039	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#937	38	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1688	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1218	26	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2199	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#806	43	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#937	34	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2276	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1050	28	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#835	36	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2087	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#802	35	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2174	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#612	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#488	8	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#429	7	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#291	17	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#348	12	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#277	13	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#254	11	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#287	12	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#314	10	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#375	5	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	8	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#313	6	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2001 and 2025, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #254, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 43 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

2 registrars publish 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.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 2 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.

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The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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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.

Culann · #254, 23y
Katie-Rose · #254, 23y
Selam · #254, 23y
Katie-Louise · #253, 21y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Saibh · #254, 24y
Benas · #253, 22y
Anayah · #256, 22y
Eryk · #252, 22y

Favour was ranked #254 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2005. 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.

Favour 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 Favour without appearing here.

Favour moved ahead of

Cecilie Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3099 and #3099 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #802 and #4798.
Tracy Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2063 and #5687.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1939 and #5493.
Debra Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3099 and #3099 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #835 and #4157.

Moved ahead of Favour

Isak Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2707 and #3908 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #3996 and #2052.
Gustav Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3411 and #3937 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4001 and #2320.
Anders Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3411 and #3937 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4001 and #2529.
Theodor Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2087 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #2741 and #1440.

Moved the opposite way to Favour

Ada Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Favour went from #606 to #885 while Ada went from #606 to #45.
Amelia Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Favour went from #606 to #885 while Amelia went from #302 to #12.
Annie Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Favour went from #606 to #885 while Annie went from #136 to #33.
Bonnie Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Favour went from #606 to #885 while Bonnie went from #400 to #64.

Moved the same way as Favour

Abigail Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Favour went from #606 to #885 and Abigail from #66 to #115.
Aimee Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Favour went from #606 to #885 and Aimee from #74 to #885.
Aisling Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Favour went from #606 to #885 and Aisling from #23 to #180.
Alex Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Favour went from #606 to #885 and Alex from #118 to #304.

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 2 regions, from 2001 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #254 in Republic of Ireland in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Favour

Favour at a glance

What stands out in Favour's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Favour across 4 official records

Favour by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Favour appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

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Favour and the names beside it

Favour moved ahead of

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Favour at a glance

What stands out in Favour's record

Favour across 4 official records

Favour by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Favour appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Favour

Favour and the names beside it

Favour moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Favour

Moved the opposite way to Favour

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