Morris

maleStatistical record

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

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

Morris: Recorded since 1975, with a gap of 10 years, it reached #304 in 1985, and it stood at #1,705 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
51years from first to last
#304highest recorded position

What stands out in Morris's record

Absent from every published list for 10 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020
1997	#2022
1998	#1188
1999	#2943
2000	#1889
2001	#2220
2002	#3225
2003	#1326
2004	#1410
2005	#1991
2006	#2087
2007	#1578
2008	#1457
2009	#1425
2010	#1620
2011	#1251
2012	#1589
2013	#1116
2014	#1421
2015	#1186
2016	#1157
2017	#1812
2018	#2112
2019	#1506
2020	#1548
2021	#1595
2022	#1268
2023	#1799
2024	#1758
2025	#1705

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 3 of the 41 years from 1975 to 2015.

In 2015: #699 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1186 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1975–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1975
First recorded at #321 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1975 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1975–2015
Highest recorded position: #304 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1985 (recorded 1975–2015).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #1705 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Morris appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 30 ranked years and 389 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1975.

Morris 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.

Morris'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 · Boys	#321 (1975)	#304 (1985)	#699 (2015)	3 of 41	9 (1975–2015)	3 (1975)
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#1116 (2013)	#1705 (2025)	30 of 30	389 (1996–2025)	24 (2016)

Morris 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 Morris in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	24	4 of 10	6
2000s	98	10 of 10	10
2010sbusiest	174	10 of 10	17
2020s	93	6 of 10	16

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 17 births a year.

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1975 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #304 in Republic of Ireland in 1985.

Morris'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
2025	England and Wales	male	#1705	15	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1758	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1799	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1268	21	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1595	15	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1548	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1506	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2112	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1812	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1157	24	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1186	22	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1421	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1116	23	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1589	15	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1251	20	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1620	14	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1425	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1457	15	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1578	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2087	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1410	12	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1326	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1889	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1188	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#304	3	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	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.

Where Morris is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Morris, between 1975 and 2025, in 32 of those 51 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1975–2015	3	#304 in 1985
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#1116 in 2013

Its high point came 28 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1985) than in England and Wales (2013).

No registrar recorded it for 10 years after 1985; it appears again in 1996.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1975 and 2025, ranked in 32 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #304, first reached in 1985.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 24 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 10 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 21 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.

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Morten · #3, 81y
Mortimer · #181, 26y

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.

Aldo · #304, 27y
Al · #305, 29y
Dave · #303, 32y
Hafsah · #305, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

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

Aldo · #304, 27y
Maxime · #304, 31y
Willie · #304, 15y
Dani · #306, 46y

Morris was ranked #304 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1985. 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.

Ahmed#304
Alec#304
Alexis#304
Alistair#304

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 2 regions, from 1975 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #304 in Republic of Ireland in 1985. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Morris

Morris at a glance

What stands out in Morris's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Morris across 2 official records

Morris by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Where Morris is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Morris

Morris at a glance

What stands out in Morris's record

Morris across 2 official records

Morris by decade in England and Wales · Boys

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Morris