Fearne

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Fearne: Recorded since 1999, its highest recorded position is #295, reached in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#295highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2000	#3912
2003	#1383
2004	#1383
2005	#951
2006	#796
2007	#655
2008	#527
2009	#601
2010	#576
2011	#658
2012	#600
2013	#492
2014	#370
2015	#372
2016	#341
2017	#442
2018	#507
2019	#475
2020	#545
2021	#555
2022	#683
2023	#1056
2024	#855

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 24 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

In 2024: #295 among girls in Scotland, #855 among girls in England and Wales, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1999–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #3900 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #855 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Fearne appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 1,506 births with the name.

Fearne 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.

Fearne'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	#3900 (1999)	#341 (2016)	#855 (2024)	24 of 26	1,506 (1999–2024)	143 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#624 (2007)	#624 (2007)	#898 (2024)	4 of 18	14 (2007–2024)	5 (2007)

Fearne 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 Fearne in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	289	8 of 10	36
2010sbusiest	940	10 of 10	94
2020s	274	5 of 10	55

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 94 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births fell by 44, from 143 to 99.

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

Fearne 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 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #295 in Scotland in 2024.

Fearne'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	#855	43	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1056	32	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#683	54	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#555	72	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#545	73	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#475	87	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#507	84	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#442	99	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#341	143	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#372	121	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#370	121	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#492	86	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#600	70	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#658	60	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#576	69	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#601	63	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#527	73	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#655	53	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#796	38	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#951	28	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1383	16	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#624	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#295	12	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 1999 and 2024, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #295, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 143 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 25 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.

Fearghal · #153, 47y
Fearn · #2189, 18y
Federico · #730, 29y
Feidhlim · #263, 31y

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.

Tate · #295, 29y
Aela · #296, 23y
Annabella · #296, 29y
Nela · #296, 21y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Tate · #295, 29y
Aela · #296, 23y
Annabella · #296, 29y
Indy · #296, 24y

Fearne was ranked #295 in Scotland · Girls 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.

Fearne 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 Fearne without appearing here.

Fearne moved ahead of

Hayden Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3912 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #951 and #3970.
Josefine Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3900 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1383 and #4373.
Meabh Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3900 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1383 and #4373.
Therese Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3912 and #2416 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1383 and #4373.

Moved ahead of Fearne

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #658 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #600 and #284.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #475 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #545 and #460.

Moved the opposite way to Fearne

Abigail Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fearne went from #3900 to #855 while Abigail went from #20 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fearne went from #3900 to #855 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fearne went from #3900 to #855 while Aisling went from #410 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fearne went from #3900 to #855 while Alex went from #204 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Fearne

Ada Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fearne went from #3900 to #855 and Ada from #2189 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fearne went from #3900 to #855 and Alma from #3225 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fearne went from #3900 to #855 and Alyssa from #483 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Fearne went from #3900 to #855 and Amalie from #2770 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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 4 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #295 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Fearne

Fearne at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Fearne across 2 official records

Fearne by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Fearne appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Fearne at a glance

Fearne across 2 official records

Fearne by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Fearne 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 Fearne

Fearne and the names beside it

Fearne moved ahead of

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