British
Recorded for both sexesGen Z2025 rank
#13,496
up +283 places
2025 births
6
unchanged births
All-time births
300
2% of them in 2025
More common than
78%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2015
- 21 births
- Best rank
- #4,671
- in 1988
- First recorded
- 1969
- #6,712 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2003
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 33 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 201521#6,062Peak
- 201420#6,243
- 198818#4,671
- 201817#6,851
- 198915#5,577
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #4,671 in 1988 · peak births 21 in 2015
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 9% boys■ 91% girls
31 boys · 300 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where British has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.