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How popular is the name Florence?

Births per year, rank history and how many Florences are alive today.

Florence is one of the ten most popular girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 6th in 2024 with 1,936 babies given the name. The name peaked in 1904, when around 22,600 babies were given the name, the 2nd most popular that year. Florence's popularity is double-peaked: strongest in the early 1900s, having dropped out of the published rankings in between, with a second wave in the early 2020s. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 73,000 babies have been named Florence in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

The Florence you are most likely to meet is around 6 years old. Half of all Florences born in England and Wales are between 9 and 66, and there are at least 61,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 18% chance that at least one of them will be called Florence.

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Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.