Fen

maleStatistical record

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

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

1registrar recorded it
10times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#2754highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3912
2003	#4373
2022	#4645
2023	#5687

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 4 of the 24 years from 2000 to 2023.

Official data for England and Wales, 2000–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2000
First recorded at #3912 among girls in England and Wales in 2000 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2004–2024
Highest recorded position: #2754 among boys in England and Wales, in 2005 (recorded 2004–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3688 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Fen appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 6 ranked years and 29 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Girls, from 2000.

Fen 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.

Fen'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	#3912 (2000)	#3912 (2000)	#5687 (2023)	4 of 24	13 (2000–2023)	4 (2022)
England and Wales · Boys	#3009 (2004)	#2754 (2005)	#3688 (2024)	6 of 21	29 (2004–2024)	7 (2023)

Fen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Fen in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	9	2 of 10	5
2010s	8	2 of 10	4
2020s	12	2 of 10	6

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

Fen 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 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2754 in England and Wales in 2005.

Fen'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	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	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 2000 and 2024, ranked in 9 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,754, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 7 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
3 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
5separate stretches the record falls into5 separate stretches →
6 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#3,688position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
7births registered in its largest year, 2023Under 25 births →

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.

Felipe · #604, 30y
Felix · #31, 60y
Fenella · #848, 29y
Fenn · #1127, 29y

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.

Billy-Jay · #2754, 13y
Issah · #2754, 11y
Jaleel · #2754, 14y
Cuthbert · #2755, 12y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Amare · #2754, 18y
Billy-Jay · #2754, 13y
Isah · #2754, 16y
Issah · #2754, 11y

Fen 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 Fen without appearing here.

Fen moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3412 and #3412 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #4991.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #5119.
Brett Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3412 and #2445 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #3523.
Erin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3412 and #3412 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #3523.

Moved ahead of Fen

Henrik Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3009 and #3651 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #2754 and #2174.

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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2754 in England and Wales in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Fen

Fen at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Fen across 2 official records

Fen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Fen 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

Fen and the names beside it

Fen moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Fen

Fen at a glance

Fen across 2 official records

Fen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Fen appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Fen and the names beside it

Fen moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Fen