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Favour

#7,240 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

To favour

Favour has been given to 507 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #7,240 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 36 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.

Babies named Favour, 2025

1 in 221,000

Favour over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Favour over time

In 2025, Favour went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Favour: meaning, origin, and history

To favour

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Favour means

Favour means “to favour”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 470 girls were recorded with the name Favour between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2016; its best national rank was #4,115 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,365 in 2020 to #7,240 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,633 in 2015 to #7,240 in 2025.

In the United States, 37 boys were recorded with the name Favour between 2003 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2006; its best national rank was #9,881 in 2015.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Favour?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,240
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Favour sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Favour. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Favours were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Favour was born before 2014 — so the typical Favour is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
470
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 51.1% of all recorded uses (240).

Is Favour rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+3,300
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,875
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,607
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.7%
Peak was 2016 (36)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,115
2016

Spellings of Favour

Favour is not the most common spelling — Fatou is, with 39.8% against Favour's 15.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Favour is used

Across 1910–2025, Favour was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 190,747 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Maryland1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Favour has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Favour around the world

Where Favour ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2025
    #1,809
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2001–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    2007–2025
    #4,940
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Favour by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,240
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,875
Best rank ever
#4,115
2016
Peak year
2016
36 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
470
Count in 2025
15

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,881
2015
Peak year
2006
7 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
37
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Favour

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Favour

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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