FOI reference: FOI-2025-3189
You asked
Would it be possible for me to request how many babies were registered in 2024 with a specific name?
We said
Thank you for your request.
We have published the rank and count for all baby boy and baby girl names for 2024 in our latest datasets linked. Please see table 6 in the links provided.
ONS have not provided numbers of names with a count of 3 or less in total within England and Wales. These figures have been redacted in order to protect the confidentiality of individuals. This is consistent with the disclosure control methodology used for births. Section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) renders it an offence to disclose information held by the Statistics Board for statistical purposes that would identify an individual or a body corporate. As we are prohibited by law from publishing statistics in which individual businesses or persons can be identified, we find that Section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies. Section 44 is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.
For further information please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.