Dexter
381
Babies in 2024
-58%
10-year change
2013
Peak · 1.02k
+30%
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 Dexter
Dexter has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 381 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 58% on a decade earlier.
Dexter reached its peak in 2013, when 1,019 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #63 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 37% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 11,627 boys have been officially registered with the name Dexter in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 6,482 boys were registered with the name, starting from 908 in 2014 and ending at 381 in 2024.