Elizabeth McLaren
Vital Statistics Outputs Branch
Telephone: 01329 444110
Categories: Population, Births and Fertility, Live Births and Stillbirths, Live Births, Birth Registrations
Frequency of release: Annually
Language: English
Geographical coverage: England and Wales
Geographical breakdown: Region
Presents statistics on the most popular names for baby boys and girls in England and Wales.
For information on data quality, legislation and procedures relating to baby name statistics, please see Baby Names Summary Quality Report (105.7 Kb Pdf) and Births Metadata (375.7 Kb Pdf) .
There is also a baby names comparison tool which allows you to analyse changing trends in boys and girls names in England and Wales.
For data for other UK countries please see the latest baby name statistics for Northern Ireland and the latest baby name statistics for Scotland.
We welcome feedback on the content, format and relevance of this release. The Health and Life Events (HLED) User Engagement Strategy (95.1 Kb Pdf) outlines the divisional approach to user engagement.