George
3.26k
Babies in 2024
-25%
10-year change
2016
Peak · 5.26k
-7%
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 George
George is one of the more popular UK boys' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #6 for boys born in 2024 with 3,257 babies registered in England & Wales.
George reached its peak in 2016, when 5,263 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #3 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 3,257 represents 62% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 121,258 boys have been officially registered with the name George in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 47,607 boys were registered with the name, starting from 4,320 in 2014 and ending at 3,257 in 2024.