Muhammad tops list of most popular names in England and Wales

Muhammad has topped the list for the most popular baby names for boys in England and Wales.

Noah and Leo were also in the top three for boys with Leo pushing out Oliver, according to the annual figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The top three names for girls were Olivia, Lily and Amelia with Lily overtaking Amelia for second place.

Olivia was the most popular name in three of nine regions in England and was the favourite for Wales, while Muhammad was the most popular in four of nine England regions and ranked 34 in Wales.

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There were 585,396 live births, 284,681 female and 300,715 male, in 2025 in England and Wales.

New additions to the top 100 names include: Eliana, Gracie, Anaya, Alba, Marnie, Lilah and Frankie for girls; and Vincent, Carter, Stanley and Ruben for boys.

The girls’ names that saw the largest popularity increase were Ada, rising 54 places; Maeve, up 24; and Charlotte, by 24.

For boys, this was Roman, by 33 places; Harry by 26 and Finley by 25.

The girls’ names that dropped off the top 100 were Jessica, down 44 places; Ellie, falling by 31; and Amelia, decreasing by 22.

Bodhi fell by 18 places; Grayson by 14; and Brody by seven to knock them off the top 100.

There were 2,386 babies born in 2025 called Olivia and 5,957 boys called Muhammad, making up 1.4 per cent of all birth names.

The top 10 names accounted for 9.1 per cent of all births that year.

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The rankings are produced from the exact spelling of the name given at birth registration and similar names with different spellings are counted separately.

Hence why Muhammad ranks number one, while Mohammed ranks at 20th with Mohammad coming in at 55th.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s first name has sunk to its lowest level of popularity ever following his fall from grace.

A record-low number of parents decided to call their newborns Andrew, in the same year that the disgraced former Duke of York was stripped of his titles over his links to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The top 10 names for boys in order, were: Muhammad, Noah, Leo, Luca, Arthur, Oliver, George, Oscar, Theodore, Freddie.

Meanwhile, the top 10 names for girls in order were: Olivia, Lily, Amelia, Isla, Florence, Freya, Poppy, Elsie, Ivy, Isabella.

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