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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Favour

Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha

2025 rank

#7,242

up +3,303 places

2025 births

15

up +6 births

All-time births

470

3% of them in 2025

More common than

83%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2016
36 births
Best rank
#4,116
in 2016
First recorded
2001
#14,110 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2013
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
25 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 201636#4,116Peak
  2. 201230#4,756
  3. 201530#4,634
  4. 201726#5,095
  5. 200725#5,584

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #4,116 in 2016 · peak births 36 in 2016

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 7% boys■ 93% girls

37 boys · 470 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 Favour has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.