Alex
295
Babies in 2024
-67%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 1.76k
-15%
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 Alex
Alex peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (1,762 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 295 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Alex reached its peak in 1996, when 1,762 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #43 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 295 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 32,729 boys have been officially registered with the name Alex in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 6,691 boys were registered with the name, starting from 903 in 2014 and ending at 295 in 2024.