King
37
Babies in 2024
+61%
10-year change
2017
Peak · 67
-12%
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 King
King appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #857 with 37 boys registered in England & Wales.
King reached its peak in 2017, when 67 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #572 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 37 represents 55% of the peak.
Across 27 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 612 boys have been officially registered with the name King in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 461 boys were registered with the name, starting from 23 in 2014 and ending at 37 in 2024.