Bear
75
Babies in 2024
+295%
10-year change
2022
Peak · 126
-26%
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 Bear
Bear is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (75) are up 295% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Bear reached its peak in 2022, when 126 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #342 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 75 represents 60% of the peak.
Across 17 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,030 boys have been officially registered with the name Bear in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 972 boys were registered with the name, starting from 19 in 2014 and ending at 75 in 2024.