Basil
21
Babies in 2024
+200%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 28
+75%
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 Basil
Basil is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (21) are up 200% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Basil reached its peak in 2021, when 28 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,023 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 21 represents 75% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 381 boys have been officially registered with the name Basil in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 176 boys were registered with the name, starting from 7 in 2014 and ending at 21 in 2024.