Brian
71
Babies in 2024
-34%
10-year change
2007
Peak · 121
-10%
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 Brian
Brian peaked among UK boys' names in the late 2000s (121 babies in 2007) and has remained in active use — 71 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Brian reached its peak in 2007, when 121 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #312 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 71 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 2,750 boys have been officially registered with the name Brian in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 948 boys were registered with the name, starting from 108 in 2014 and ending at 71 in 2024.