Anakin
16
Babies in 2024
+129%
10-year change
2022
Peak · 21
-6%
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 Anakin
Anakin is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (16) are up 129% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Anakin reached its peak in 2022, when 21 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,268 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 16 represents 76% of the peak.
Across 24 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 195 boys have been officially registered with the name Anakin in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 124 boys were registered with the name, starting from 7 in 2014 and ending at 16 in 2024.