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How popular is the name Spencer?
Births per year, rank history and how many Spencers are alive today.
Spencer (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 170th in 2025 with 298 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2003, when 617 babies were given the name, the 90th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 210 in 2024 before climbing back to the 170th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 8,600 babies have been named Spencer in England and Wales since 1996.
The Spencer you are most likely to meet is around 23 years old - or else around 11: the name has two living generations. Half of all Spencers born in England and Wales are between 9 and 23, and there are at least 9,400 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 3.1% chance that at least one of them will be called Spencer.
How many babies are named Spencer each year?
Where does Spencer 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 Spencer most popular?
Spencer peaked in 2003, when 617 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Spencer?
At least 9,400 people named Spencer born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Spencer?
Most living Spencers are between 9 and 23; the most common age is about 23. There is a second cluster around 11.
Is Spencer becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.