Alfred
657
Babies in 2024
+29%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 739
-3%
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 Alfred
Alfred is one of the more popular UK boys' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #81 for boys born in 2024 with 657 babies registered in England & Wales.
Alfred reached its peak in 2021, when 739 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #80 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 657 represents 89% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 12,500 boys have been officially registered with the name Alfred in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 6,920 boys were registered with the name, starting from 511 in 2014 and ending at 657 in 2024.