Barnabas
9
Babies in 2024
-55%
10-year change
2019
Peak · 28
-31%
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 Barnabas
Barnabas has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 9 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 55% on a decade earlier.
Barnabas reached its peak in 2019, when 28 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,001 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 32% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 437 boys have been officially registered with the name Barnabas in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 196 boys were registered with the name, starting from 20 in 2014 and ending at 9 in 2024.