Dale
8
Babies in 2024
-58%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 373
+60%
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 Dale
Dale peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (373 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 8 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Dale reached its peak in 1996, when 373 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #117 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 8 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,608 boys have been officially registered with the name Dale in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 141 boys were registered with the name, starting from 19 in 2014 and ending at 8 in 2024.