Primrose
272
Babies in 2024
+193%
10-year change
2020
Peak · 320
+10%
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 Primrose
Primrose is a rising UK girl's name. Registrations in 2024 (272) are up 193% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Primrose reached its peak in 2020, when 320 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #157 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 272 represents 85% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 2,967 girls have been officially registered with the name Primrose in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,652 girls were registered with the name, starting from 93 in 2014 and ending at 272 in 2024.