Harold
29
Babies in 2024
+38%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 54
+81%
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 Harold
Harold peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (54 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 29 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Harold reached its peak in 1996, when 54 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #394 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 29 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 715 boys have been officially registered with the name Harold in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 256 boys were registered with the name, starting from 21 in 2014 and ending at 29 in 2024.