Ned
37
Babies in 2024
-41%
10-year change
2006
Peak · 88
-16%
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 Ned
Ned peaked among UK boys' names in the late 2000s (88 babies in 2006) and has remained in active use — 37 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Ned reached its peak in 2006, when 88 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #389 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 37 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,614 boys have been officially registered with the name Ned in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 672 boys were registered with the name, starting from 63 in 2014 and ending at 37 in 2024.