Dean
57
Babies in 2024
-34%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 719
+24%
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 Dean
Dean peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (719 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 57 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Dean reached its peak in 1996, when 719 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #80 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 57 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 5,329 boys have been officially registered with the name Dean in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 727 boys were registered with the name, starting from 86 in 2014 and ending at 57 in 2024.