Lionel
38
Babies in 2024
+100%
10-year change
2024
Peak · 38
+41%
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 Lionel
Lionel is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (38) are up 100% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Lionel reached its peak in 2024, when 38 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #847 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 38 represents 100% of the peak.
Across 28 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 388 boys have been officially registered with the name Lionel in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 243 boys were registered with the name, starting from 19 in 2014 and ending at 38 in 2024.