England and Wales Baby Names by Year

Explore ONS published baby-name ranks and birth-registration counts in England and Wales from 1996 through 2025, with a separate girls’ and boys’ view.

01 · Choose your filters

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Switch between the two ONS recorded-sex tables, select a birth-registration year, and inspect exact spellings ranked up to 1,000. These are England and Wales data, never a UK-wide or U.S. combined count.

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Practical guide

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Compare within one source

ONS counts names from live-birth registrations in England and Wales. The U.S. pages use a different SSA collection. Their raw totals and ranks should not be added together or read as one ranking.

Read a published rank

The ONS workbook provides ranks and counts. Tied names can share a rank, so the number of spellings in a rank-bounded list may differ from exactly 1,000. The first-letter filter keeps each published rank intact.

Understand redaction

ONS redacts counts of two or fewer. This tool shows only names with a published rank of 1,000 or better for the selected year. An absent name may occur below that selection or be redacted; it is not a zero-birth statement.

Questions about this tool

Does this cover Scotland or Northern Ireland?

No. It is explicitly the combined England and Wales series from the Office for National Statistics.

May I compare a name with the U.S. list?

You can inspect the same spelling on each separate source, but the birth-registration and SSA application totals have different populations and methods. We do not merge them.

Read our data sources and selection rules before using a result as evidence of popularity.