Leif
40
Babies in 2024
+264%
10-year change
2024
Peak · 40
+3%
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 Leif
Leif is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (40) are up 264% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Leif reached its peak in 2024, when 40 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #814 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 40 represents 100% of the peak.
Across 26 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 322 boys have been officially registered with the name Leif in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 217 boys were registered with the name, starting from 11 in 2014 and ending at 40 in 2024.