Duke
11
Babies in 2024
-63%
10-year change
2014
Peak · 30
+22%
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 Duke
Duke has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 11 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 63% on a decade earlier.
Duke reached its peak in 2014, when 30 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #959 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 37% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 26 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 311 boys have been officially registered with the name Duke in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 199 boys were registered with the name, starting from 30 in 2014 and ending at 11 in 2024.