Hosea
10
Babies in 2024
+100%
10-year change
2016
Peak · 11
+25%
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 Hosea
Hosea is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (10) are up 100% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Hosea reached its peak in 2016, when 11 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #2,027 for UK boys that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 16 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 93 boys have been officially registered with the name Hosea in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 71 boys were registered with the name, starting from 5 in 2014 and ending at 10 in 2024.