Oliver
3.49k
Babies in 2024
-47%
10-year change
2010
Peak · 8.43k
-2%
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 Oliver
Oliver is one of the more popular UK boys' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #3 for boys born in 2024 with 3,492 babies registered in England & Wales.
Oliver reached its peak in 2010, when 8,427 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 3,492 represents 41% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 157,197 boys have been officially registered with the name Oliver in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 55,925 boys were registered with the name, starting from 6,649 in 2014 and ending at 3,492 in 2024.