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Ffion

Girls' name

Foxglove

Ffion has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2018. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2018, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Ffion, 2022

1 in 677,000

Ffion over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ffion: meaning, origin, and history

Foxglove

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ffion means

Ffion means “foxglove”, associated with ffion.

Origin, language, and formation

Ffion is used in Welsh.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Ffion is pronounced /ˈfɪ.ɔn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Ffion between 2018 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2018; its best national rank was #16,115 in 2022.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ffion?

Ffion had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ffion 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ffion. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ffions were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ffion was born before 2018 — so the typical Ffion is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
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2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Ffion 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2018 (5)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#16,115
2022

Spellings of Ffion

Ffion is not the most common spelling — Fiona is, with 67.0% against Ffion's 0.02%.

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.

Ffion around the world

Where Ffion 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
    1996–2025
    #413
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2023
    #749
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1995–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ffion by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#16,115
2022
Peak year
2018
5 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ffion

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

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Sibling names for Ffion

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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