Saffron
34
Babies in 2024
-60%
10-year change
2000
Peak · 345
-33%
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 Saffron
Saffron peaked among UK girls' names in the early 2000s (345 babies in 2000) and has remained in active use — 34 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Saffron reached its peak in 2000, when 345 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #133 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 34 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 4,204 girls have been officially registered with the name Saffron in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 640 girls were registered with the name, starting from 86 in 2014 and ending at 34 in 2024.