John
304
Babies in 2024
-49%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 1.65k
-9%
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 John
John peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (1,649 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 304 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
John reached its peak in 1996, when 1,649 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #46 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 304 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 22,240 boys have been officially registered with the name John in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 4,855 boys were registered with the name, starting from 601 in 2014 and ending at 304 in 2024.