Buddy
57
Babies in 2024
-62%
10-year change
2016
Peak · 180
+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 Buddy
Buddy has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 57 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 62% on a decade earlier.
Buddy reached its peak in 2016, when 180 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #282 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 32% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 27 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,772 boys have been officially registered with the name Buddy in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,284 boys were registered with the name, starting from 152 in 2014 and ending at 57 in 2024.