Rufus
95
Babies in 2024
-51%
10-year change
2012
Peak · 218
-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 Rufus
Rufus has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 95 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 51% on a decade earlier.
Rufus reached its peak in 2012, when 218 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #236 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 44% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,680 boys have been officially registered with the name Rufus in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,777 boys were registered with the name, starting from 195 in 2014 and ending at 95 in 2024.