Gene
51
Babies in 2024
+104%
10-year change
2024
Peak · 51
+6%
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 Gene
Gene is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (51) are up 104% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Gene reached its peak in 2024, when 51 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #702 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 51 represents 100% of the peak.
Across 27 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 774 boys have been officially registered with the name Gene in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 425 boys were registered with the name, starting from 25 in 2014 and ending at 51 in 2024.