Lance
16
Babies in 2024
-30%
10-year change
2005
Peak · 37
-6%
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 Lance
Lance peaked among UK boys' names in the late 2000s (37 babies in 2005) and has remained in active use — 16 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Lance reached its peak in 2005, when 37 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #691 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 16 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 636 boys have been officially registered with the name Lance in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 189 boys were registered with the name, starting from 23 in 2014 and ending at 16 in 2024.