Merlin
17
Babies in 2024
+113%
10-year change
2017
Peak · 27
+31%
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 Merlin
Merlin is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (17) are up 113% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Merlin reached its peak in 2017, when 27 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,068 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 17 represents 63% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 397 boys have been officially registered with the name Merlin in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 190 boys were registered with the name, starting from 8 in 2014 and ending at 17 in 2024.