Liam
749
Babies in 2024
-17%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 5.80k
+2%
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 Liam
Liam peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (5,802 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 749 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Liam reached its peak in 1996, when 5,802 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #10 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 749 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 60,482 boys have been officially registered with the name Liam in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 8,318 boys were registered with the name, starting from 902 in 2014 and ending at 749 in 2024.