Abel
302
Babies in 2024
+125%
10-year change
2023
Peak · 345
-12%
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 Abel
Abel is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (302) are up 125% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Abel reached its peak in 2023, when 345 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #153 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 302 represents 88% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,399 boys have been officially registered with the name Abel in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,771 boys were registered with the name, starting from 134 in 2014 and ending at 302 in 2024.