Byron
14
Babies in 2024
-78%
10-year change
2000
Peak · 202
-18%
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 Byron
Byron peaked among UK boys' names in the early 2000s (202 babies in 2000) and has remained in active use — 14 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Byron reached its peak in 2000, when 202 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #175 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 14 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 2,420 boys have been officially registered with the name Byron in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 452 boys were registered with the name, starting from 63 in 2014 and ending at 14 in 2024.