Paul
65
Babies in 2024
-57%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 898
-24%
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 Paul
Paul peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (898 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 65 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Paul reached its peak in 1996, when 898 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #72 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 65 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 8,542 boys have been officially registered with the name Paul in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,290 boys were registered with the name, starting from 150 in 2014 and ending at 65 in 2024.