Sterling
16
Babies in 2024
+167%
10-year change
2022
Peak · 25
-30%
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 Sterling
Sterling is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (16) are up 167% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Sterling reached its peak in 2022, when 25 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,104 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 16 represents 64% of the peak.
Across 23 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 261 boys have been officially registered with the name Sterling in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 194 boys were registered with the name, starting from 6 in 2014 and ending at 16 in 2024.