Thirty years of Dua
Dua in numbers
Dua is still climbing: from 3 girls in 1999 (its first published year) to 411 in 2025, its highest count so far. Its biggest three-year rise came between 2019 and 2022, from 126 to 322.
† Shapes, averages and turning points are Baby Data calculations from the ONS counts.
What the official statisticians said
“Following Dua Lipa’s first UK number one single in 2017, the number of girls named Dua has doubled”
ONS, on 2019 births in England and Wales. Read the source
Quoted word for word from the official releases, including their own “may” and “could”. Baby Data has not added reasons of its own. Releases for Scotland and Northern Ireland are about babies there, not in England and Wales.
Milestones
First year in each bandChange
- On last year+22%337 to 411
- 5 years+101%204 to 411
- 10 years+552%63 to 411
- 20 years+3,062%13 to 411
- Since 1999 (first published)×1373 to 411
- Total, 1996 to 20252,535girls
† All changes and totals are Baby Data calculations from ONS counts. A total adds only the published years.
Across the three nations, 2025
Each from its own statistics office, never added togetherRank 118 · ONS · 337 in 2024
Rank 429 · NRS · 18 in 2024
Fewer than 3 babies, or not published · NISRA
England and Wales (ONS) count births in the calendar year; Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) count births registered in the year. Each comes from its own statistics office and they are never added together.
Year by year, 1996 to 2025 Show all 30 yearsHide the table
| Year | Rank | Babies | Change† | 1 in X† |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 118 | 411 | +22% | 1 in 693 |
| 2024 | 151 | 337 | +20% | 1 in 860 |
| 2023 | 182 | 280 | -13% | 1 in 1,029 |
| 2022 | 152 | 322 | +43% | 1 in 916 |
| 2021 | =222 | 225 | +10% | 1 in 1,354 |
| 2020 | 227 | 204 | +62% | 1 in 1,468 |
| 2019 | =349 | 126 | +10% | 1 in 2,470 |
| 2018 | =387 | 115 | +83% | 1 in 2,778 |
| 2017 | =661 | 63 | -20% | 1 in 5,255 |
| 2016 | =537 | 79 | +25% | 1 in 4,294 |
| 2015 | =649 | 63 | +15% | 1 in 5,392 |
| 2014 | =715 | 55 | +25% | 1 in 6,154 |
| 2013 * | =854 | 44 | +13% | 1 in 7,761 |
| 2012 | =934 | 39 | +8% | 1 in 9,111 |
| 2011 | =973 | 36 | +33% | 1 in 9,804 |
| 2010 | =1,180 | 27 | -10% | 1 in 13,044 |
| 2009 | =1,055 | 30 | +67% | 1 in 11,470 |
| 2008 | =1,516 | 18 | +64% | 1 in 19,208 |
| 2007 | =2,085 | 11 | -21% | 1 in 30,500 |
| 2006 | =1,660 | 14 | +8% | 1 in 23,369 |
| 2005 | =1,690 | 13 | +160% | 1 in 24,247 |
| 2004 | =3,197 | 5 | -29% | 1 in 62,274 |
| 2003 | =2,436 | 7 | +40% | 1 in 43,290 |
| 2002 | =2,868 | 5 | +67% | 1 in 58,009 |
| 2001 | =3,998 | 3 | 1 in 96,660 | |
| 2000 | n/a | under 3 | ||
| 1999 | =3,900 | 3 | 1 in 100,869 | |
| 1998 | n/a | under 3 | ||
| 1997 | n/a | under 3 | ||
| 1996 | n/a | under 3 |
* ONS’s girls’ 2013 file repeats the May total as April, so the 2013 births total is about 1,360 too high and 1 in X for 2013 is slightly too high. Rank follows ONS: names with the same count share a rank (shown with =). “Under 3” means the name was given to fewer than 3 babies that year, so ONS did not publish it.
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; National Records of Scotland; NISRA. Exact spellings are counted separately and names given to fewer than 3 babies are not published. Figures marked † are Baby Data calculations. How we calculate