Dawson
68
Babies in 2024
+19%
10-year change
2015
Peak · 86
+26%
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 Dawson
Dawson appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #560 with 68 boys registered in England & Wales.
Dawson reached its peak in 2015, when 86 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #470 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 68 represents 79% of the peak.
Across 27 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,261 boys have been officially registered with the name Dawson in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 785 boys were registered with the name, starting from 57 in 2014 and ending at 68 in 2024.