Boris
16
Babies in 2024
-63%
10-year change
2018
Peak · 47
-43%
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 Boris
Boris has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 16 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 63% on a decade earlier.
Boris reached its peak in 2018, when 47 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #721 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 34% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 707 boys have been officially registered with the name Boris in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 388 boys were registered with the name, starting from 43 in 2014 and ending at 16 in 2024.