Perseus
12
Babies in 2024
+300%
10-year change
2022
Peak · 14
-14%
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 Perseus
Perseus is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (12) are up 300% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Perseus reached its peak in 2022, when 14 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,692 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 12 represents 86% of the peak.
Across 12 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 100 boys have been officially registered with the name Perseus in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 94 boys were registered with the name, starting from 3 in 2014 and ending at 12 in 2024.