Charles
452
Babies in 2024
-56%
10-year change
1998
Peak · 1.87k
+2%
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 Charles
Charles peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (1,868 babies in 1998) and has remained in active use — 452 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Charles reached its peak in 1998, when 1,868 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #41 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 452 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 33,091 boys have been officially registered with the name Charles in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 7,986 boys were registered with the name, starting from 1,037 in 2014 and ending at 452 in 2024.