Edward
1.46k
Babies in 2024
-40%
10-year change
2015
Peak · 2.59k
-3%
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 Edward
Edward is one of the more popular UK boys' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #31 for boys born in 2024 with 1,461 babies registered in England & Wales.
Edward reached its peak in 2015, when 2,593 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #26 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 1,461 represents 56% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 53,212 boys have been officially registered with the name Edward in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 22,353 boys were registered with the name, starting from 2,417 in 2014 and ending at 1,461 in 2024.