Bow
6
Babies in 2024
-67%
10-year change
2012
Peak · 30
-25%
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 Bow
Bow has been falling out of fashion as a UK girl's name. In 2024, 6 girls were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 67% on a decade earlier.
Bow reached its peak in 2012, when 30 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,130 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 20% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 19 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 279 girls have been officially registered with the name Bow in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 180 girls were registered with the name, starting from 18 in 2014 and ending at 6 in 2024.