Sean
59
Babies in 2024
-70%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 1.59k
-9%
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 Sean
Sean peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (1,594 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 59 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Sean reached its peak in 1996, when 1,594 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #49 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 59 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 15,006 boys have been officially registered with the name Sean in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,190 boys were registered with the name, starting from 197 in 2014 and ending at 59 in 2024.