Rex
228
Babies in 2024
+26%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 396
-10%
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 Rex
Rex appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #216 with 228 boys registered in England & Wales.
Rex reached its peak in 2021, when 396 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #142 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 228 represents 58% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 4,025 boys have been officially registered with the name Rex in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 3,395 boys were registered with the name, starting from 181 in 2014 and ending at 228 in 2024.