Peter
157
Babies in 2024
-57%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 1.13k
-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 Peter
Peter peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (1,128 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 157 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Peter reached its peak in 1996, when 1,128 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #59 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 157 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 13,150 boys have been officially registered with the name Peter in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,772 boys were registered with the name, starting from 369 in 2014 and ending at 157 in 2024.