Ben
77
Babies in 2024
-79%
10-year change
2002
Peak · 3.19k
-13%
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 Ben
Ben peaked among UK boys' names in the early 2000s (3,190 babies in 2002) and has remained in active use — 77 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Ben reached its peak in 2002, when 3,190 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #21 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 77 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 36,356 boys have been officially registered with the name Ben in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,089 boys were registered with the name, starting from 364 in 2014 and ending at 77 in 2024.