Girls, 2025
Top 10 for each monthJanuary
23,713 girls born
February
21,544 girls born
March
23,973 girls born
April
23,275 girls born
May
24,681 girls born
June
23,880 girls born
July
24,788 girls born
August
23,979 girls born
September
24,152 girls born
October
24,466 girls born
November
22,856 girls born
Boys, 2025
Top 10 for each monthJanuary
24,971 boys born
February
22,884 boys born
March
25,293 boys born
April
24,598 boys born
May
25,961 boys born
June
25,070 boys born
July
26,605 boys born
August
25,376 boys born
September
25,412 boys born
October
25,881 boys born
November
23,983 boys born
Over thirty years
From 1996 to 2025, Olivia was the top girls’ name in 146 of the 360 months, and Jack the top boys’ name in 135†. A month’s number one is not always the year’s number one. In a single month the top names are often only a few babies apart, so the order can change from month to month.
Source: ONS, Baby names for girls in England and Wales; ONS, Baby names for boys in England and Wales.
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, top 10 names by month of birth, 1996 to 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Exact spellings are counted separately. Names with the same count share a rank; ranks are worked out from ONS’s published counts, because in a few older tables ONS’s printed rank does not match its own counts (for example girls, November 2011, where Amelia and Olivia are both printed as 1 but Amelia had 502 babies and Olivia 414). ONS publishes only the top 10 for each month, so a name not shown may still have been given to many babies that month. The monthly total for girls born in October 1998 is blank in the ONS file. † Baby Data count of the published lists.