Wilson
16
Babies in 2024
-69%
10-year change
2017
Peak · 68
-24%
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 Wilson
Wilson has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 16 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 69% on a decade earlier.
Wilson reached its peak in 2017, when 68 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #568 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 24% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 893 boys have been officially registered with the name Wilson in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 421 boys were registered with the name, starting from 51 in 2014 and ending at 16 in 2024.