Christian
106
Babies in 2024
-57%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 627
-32%
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 Christian
Christian peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (627 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 106 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Christian reached its peak in 1996, when 627 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #90 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 106 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 9,695 boys have been officially registered with the name Christian in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,294 boys were registered with the name, starting from 248 in 2014 and ending at 106 in 2024.