Herkus
16
Babies in 2024
+220%
10-year change
2019
Peak · 31
+100%
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 Herkus
Herkus is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (16) are up 220% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Herkus reached its peak in 2019, when 31 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #929 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 16 represents 52% of the peak.
Across 15 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 223 boys have been officially registered with the name Herkus in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 204 boys were registered with the name, starting from 5 in 2014 and ending at 16 in 2024.