Nova
14
Babies in 2024
+367%
10-year change
2022
Peak · 26
-46%
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 Nova
Nova is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (14) are up 367% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Nova reached its peak in 2022, when 26 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,084 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 14 represents 54% of the peak.
Across 12 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 178 boys have been officially registered with the name Nova in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 175 boys were registered with the name, starting from 3 in 2014 and ending at 14 in 2024.