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How popular is the name Bear?
Births per year, rank history and how many Bears are alive today.
Bear (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 360th in 2025 with 117 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2022, when 126 babies were given the name, the 342nd most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 519 in 2024 before climbing back to the 360th place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years.
The Bear you are most likely to meet is around 5 years old. Half of all Bears born in England and Wales are between 3 and 9, and there are at least 1,100 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Bear - on average, only one in every 276 such rooms contains a Bear.
How many babies are named Bear each year?
Where does Bear rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Bear most popular?
Bear peaked in 2022, when 126 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Bear?
At least 1,100 people named Bear born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Bear?
Most living Bears are between 3 and 9; the most common age is about 5.
Is Bear becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.