Kelvin
18
Babies in 2024
-38%
10-year change
1997
Peak · 65
-14%
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 Kelvin
Kelvin peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (65 babies in 1997) and has remained in active use — 18 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Kelvin reached its peak in 1997, when 65 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #360 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 18 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,119 boys have been officially registered with the name Kelvin in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 225 boys were registered with the name, starting from 29 in 2014 and ending at 18 in 2024.