Will
13
Babies in 2024
-86%
10-year change
2004
Peak · 211
-28%
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 Will
Will peaked among UK boys' names in the early 2000s (211 babies in 2004) and has remained in active use — 13 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Will reached its peak in 2004, when 211 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #188 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 13 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,185 boys have been officially registered with the name Will in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 435 boys were registered with the name, starting from 91 in 2014 and ending at 13 in 2024.