Fleur

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Fleur: Recorded since 1972, with a gap of 16 years, it reached #260 in 2015, and it stood at #526 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
53years from first to last
#260highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Fleur's record

Absent from every published list for 16 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#385
1997	#387
1998	#418
1999	#490
2000	#539
2001	#612
2002	#493
2003	#326
2004	#340
2005	#410
2006	#372
2007	#433
2008	#500
2009	#540
2010	#499
2011	#440
2012	#475
2013	#415
2014	#367
2015	#260
2016	#297
2017	#340
2018	#342
2019	#414
2020	#378
2021	#412
2022	#442
2023	#433
2024	#526

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 Republic of Ireland in 13 of the 53 years from 1972 to 2024.

In 2024: #526 among girls in England and Wales, #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1972–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1972
First recorded at #471 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1972 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #260 among girls in England and Wales, in 2015 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #526 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Fleur appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 2,855 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1972.

Fleur 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.

Fleur'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	#471 (1972)	#471 (1972)	#736 (2024)	13 of 53	47 (1972–2024)	7 (2021)
England and Wales · Girls	#385 (1996)	#260 (2015)	#526 (2024)	29 of 29	2,855 (1996–2024)	191 (2015)

Fleur 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 Fleur in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	300	4 of 10	75
2000s	829	10 of 10	83
2010sbusiest	1,238	10 of 10	124
2020s	488	5 of 10	98

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 124 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2014 and 2015, when recorded births rose by 69, from 122 to 191.

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

Fleur 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 3 regions, from 1972 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #260 in England and Wales in 2015.

Fleur'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	#526	74	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#433	94	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#442	96	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#412	108	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#378	116	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#414	102	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#342	140	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#340	140	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#297	168	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#260	191	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#367	122	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#415	102	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#475	94	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#440	98	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#499	81	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#540	73	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#500	77	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#433	94	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#372	112	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#410	90	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#340	113	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#326	116	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#493	61	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#612	42	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#539	51	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#490	59	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#418	73	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#387	82	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#385	86	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	7	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#522	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#518	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 3 registrars between 1972 and 2024, ranked in 33 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #260, first reached in 2015.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 191 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 16 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 52 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.

Flemming · #215, 32y
Fletcher · #65, 30y
Flinn · #615, 18y
Flint · #1935, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Franklin · #260, 29y
Katharine · #258, 37y
Cassius · #263, 29y
Karolis · #257, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Darron · #260, 15y
Demelza · #260, 34y
Janniche · #260, 18y
Fredrikke · #261, 41y

Fleur was ranked #260 in England and Wales · Girls in 2015. 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.

Fleur 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 Fleur without appearing here.

Fleur moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2020 they stood at #868 and #750 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2021 that had become #517 and #883.
Judith Compare
In 2020 they stood at #868 and #661 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2021 that had become #517 and #883.
Mona Compare
In 2020 they stood at #677 and #677 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2021 that had become #517 and #883.
Elisabeth Compare
In 2002 they stood at #493 and #413 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #326 and #607.

Moved ahead of Fleur

Maeve Compare
In 2018 they stood at #342 and #507 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #414 and #218.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #440 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #475 and #284.
Sienna Compare
In 2003 they stood at #326 and #427 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #340 and #155.
Aria Compare
In 2011 they stood at #440 and #615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #475 and #294.

Moved the opposite way to Fleur

Abigail Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Fleur went from #471 to #736 while Abigail went from #332 to #79.
Alice Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Fleur went from #471 to #736 while Alice went from #142 to #52.
Amelia Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Fleur went from #471 to #736 while Amelia went from #332 to #8.
Anna Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Fleur went from #471 to #736 while Anna went from #55 to #29.

Moved the same way as Fleur

Aisling Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Fleur went from #471 to #736 and Aisling from #48 to #154.
Alison Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Fleur went from #471 to #736 and Alison from #64 to #275.
Amanda Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Fleur went from #471 to #736 and Amanda from #50 to #631.
Andrea Compare
Between 1972 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Fleur went from #471 to #736 and Andrea from #101 to #736.

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 3 regions, from 1972 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #260 in England and Wales in 2015. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Fleur

Fleur at a glance

What stands out in Fleur's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Fleur across 2 official records

Fleur by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Fleur appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Fleur

Fleur and the names beside it

Fleur moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Fleur

Moved the opposite way to Fleur

Moved the same way as Fleur

Fleur at a glance

What stands out in Fleur's record

Fleur across 2 official records

Fleur by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Fleur appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Fleur

Fleur and the names beside it

Fleur moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Fleur

Moved the opposite way to Fleur

Moved the same way as Fleur