Jan
76
Babies in 2024
-60%
10-year change
2017
Peak · 238
-21%
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 Jan
Jan has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 76 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 60% on a decade earlier.
Jan reached its peak in 2017, when 238 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #226 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 32% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,095 boys have been officially registered with the name Jan in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,745 boys were registered with the name, starting from 190 in 2014 and ending at 76 in 2024.