Gael
23
Babies in 2024
+229%
10-year change
2022
Peak · 29
-21%
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 Gael
Gael is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (23) are up 229% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Gael reached its peak in 2022, when 29 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,011 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 23 represents 79% of the peak.
Across 18 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 261 boys have been officially registered with the name Gael in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 211 boys were registered with the name, starting from 7 in 2014 and ending at 23 in 2024.