Stanley
523
Babies in 2024
-51%
10-year change
2015
Peak · 1.08k
-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 Stanley
Stanley has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 523 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 51% on a decade earlier.
Stanley reached its peak in 2015, when 1,078 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #59 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 49% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 16,354 boys have been officially registered with the name Stanley in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 9,058 boys were registered with the name, starting from 1,059 in 2014 and ending at 523 in 2024.