Lex
14
Babies in 2024
+8%
10-year change
2008
Peak · 25
+40%
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 Lex
Lex peaked among UK boys' names in the late 2000s (25 babies in 2008) and has remained in active use — 14 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Lex reached its peak in 2008, when 25 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,024 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 14 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 25 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 398 boys have been officially registered with the name Lex in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 171 boys were registered with the name, starting from 13 in 2014 and ending at 14 in 2024.