Arafat
12
Babies in 2024
+50%
10-year change
2016
Peak · 15
+71%
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 Arafat
Arafat appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #1,951 with 12 boys registered in England & Wales.
Arafat reached its peak in 2016, when 15 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,627 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 12 represents 80% of the peak.
Across 25 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 191 boys have been officially registered with the name Arafat in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 107 boys were registered with the name, starting from 8 in 2014 and ending at 12 in 2024.