Stephen
57
Babies in 2024
-57%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 1.12k
+8%
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 Stephen
Stephen peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (1,122 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 57 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Stephen reached its peak in 1996, when 1,122 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #60 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 57 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 8,884 boys have been officially registered with the name Stephen in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 963 boys were registered with the name, starting from 133 in 2014 and ending at 57 in 2024.