Iris
707
Babies in 2024
+35%
10-year change
2022
Peak · 762
-5%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Iris
Iris is one of the more popular UK girls' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #61 for girls born in 2024 with 707 babies registered in England & Wales.
Iris reached its peak in 2022, when 762 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #66 for UK girls that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 10,353 girls have been officially registered with the name Iris in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 7,333 girls were registered with the name, starting from 522 in 2014 and ending at 707 in 2024.