Luke
387
Babies in 2024
-71%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 5.66k
-13%
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 Luke
Luke peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (5,664 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 387 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Luke reached its peak in 1996, when 5,664 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #12 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 387 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 72,247 boys have been officially registered with the name Luke in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 8,028 boys were registered with the name, starting from 1,322 in 2014 and ending at 387 in 2024.