Morven

Morven was the #191 girls' name in Scotland in 2025 (21 babies).

Morven as a girl’s name

  • England & Wales
  • Scotland
Morven as a girl’s name, England & Wales, ScotlandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1974–2025, for England & Wales, Scotland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.631.251.882.519801990200020102020Scotland
Morven as a girl’s name, England & Wales, ScotlandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1974–2025, for England & Wales, Scotland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.631.251.882.5198020002020
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearEngland & WalesScotland
2025—#191 (21)
2024—#384 (8)
2023#4,710 (4)#281 (13)
2022—#358 (9)
2021#5,581 (3)#286 (13)
2020#3,117 (7)#293 (12)
2019#5,591 (3)#286 (13)
2018#3,985 (5)#275 (14)
2017#3,229 (7)#304 (12)
2016—#240 (17)
2015—#340 (11)
2014—#365 (10)
2013#3,536 (6)#302 (13)
2012—#214 (21)
2011#5,785 (3)#252 (17)

The tide so far

  • Peaked in Scotland in 2000 at #92.
  • Rising over the last five years.
  • In the Scotland records since the data begins in 1974.

How common is it?

about 1 in 850 baby girls in the published Scotland list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet about 1. How we work this out.

Next year

On its recent trend, Morven is likely to keep falling in Scotland in 2026: about 1 in 1,100 baby girls. Likely range 1 in 510 to 1 in 2,500.

Estimate, not an official figure. How we estimate.