Thirty years of Felix
Felix in numbers
Felix is still climbing: from 149 boys in 1996 to 811 in 2025, its highest count so far. Its biggest three-year rise came between 2004 and 2007, from 300 to 472. It ranked 210th in 1996 and reached 59th in 2025, its best place so far. On average it was given to 186 boys a year in the late 1990s, 358 in the 2000s, 623 in the 2010s and 769 in the 2020s so far.
† Shapes, averages and turning points are Baby Data calculations from the ONS counts.
Milestones
First year in each bandChange
- On last year+0%810 to 811
- 5 years+8%749 to 811
- 10 years+19%680 to 811
- 20 years+129%354 to 811
- Since 1996×5149 to 811
- Total, 1996 to 202515,172boys
† 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 59 · ONS · 810 in 2024
Rank 129 · NRS · 42 in 2024
Rank 237 · NISRA · 15 in 2024
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 | =59 | 811 | +0% | 1 in 371 |
| 2024 | 62 | 810 | +15% | 1 in 377 |
| 2023 | 73 | 705 | -4% | 1 in 430 |
| 2022 | 77 | 733 | -9% | 1 in 424 |
| 2021 | 71 | 807 | +8% | 1 in 397 |
| 2020 | 77 | 749 | +8% | 1 in 420 |
| 2019 | 88 | 694 | +1% | 1 in 474 |
| 2018 | 93 | 689 | +4% | 1 in 490 |
| 2017 | 100 | 661 | -1% | 1 in 527 |
| 2016 * | 99 | 666 | -2% | 1 in 535 |
| 2015 | 95 | 680 | +11% | 1 in 527 |
| 2014 | 98 | 614 | -8% | 1 in 581 |
| 2013 | 91 | 666 | +19% | 1 in 538 |
| 2012 | 114 | 558 | +13% | 1 in 671 |
| 2011 | =131 | 492 | -4% | 1 in 754 |
| 2010 | 122 | 511 | +5% | 1 in 726 |
| 2009 | 122 | 485 | +1% | 1 in 747 |
| 2008 | 117 | 481 | +2% | 1 in 755 |
| 2007 | 118 | 472 | +24% | 1 in 751 |
| 2006 | 140 | 382 | +8% | 1 in 896 |
| 2005 | 143 | 354 | +18% | 1 in 934 |
| 2004 | 153 | 300 | -0% | 1 in 1,094 |
| 2003 | =152 | 301 | +6% | 1 in 1,058 |
| 2002 | 146 | 283 | +5% | 1 in 1,081 |
| 2001 | 145 | 270 | +6% | 1 in 1,128 |
| 2000 | 145 | 255 | +9% | 1 in 1,214 |
| 1999 | =151 | 233 | +23% | 1 in 1,370 |
| 1998 | =177 | 190 | +11% | 1 in 1,715 |
| 1997 | 189 | 171 | +15% | 1 in 1,927 |
| 1996 | =210 | 149 | 1 in 2,238 |
* ONS’s boys’ 2016 file repeats the October total as September, so the 2016 births total is about 932 too low and 1 in X for 2016 is slightly too low. 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