The Office for National Statistics holds a massive spreadsheet of names chosen for babies born in the UK. To find out what the top gender-neutral names (UK based) are, I’ve gone through all of the data and highlighted as many as possible.
For now, that’s a list of 81 names you can use for your characters. In the future, I hope to produce some resources, including a simplified spreadsheet, for UK writers to use.
Gender-neutral names UK
I’ve taken the data from the Office of National Statistics and listed all of the top gender-neutral names in the UK. ONS separates data based on the assigned sex of a baby, but cross-referencing other resources I’ve combined them to give UK authors a better list to work from.
NOTE: If you also love going through spreadsheets, I used the dataset “Baby names in England and Wales: from 1996“. It only includes up to 2021 in the edition I used.
Names are listed in alphabetical order.
- Ace
- Alex
- Ali
- Ari
- Asher
- Ashton
- Bailey
- Bertie
- Brodie
- Casey
- Charlie
- Coby
- Cody
- Danny
- Darcy
- Eden
- Eli
- Elis
- Ellis
- Evelyn
- Ezra
- Fletcher
- Flynn
- Frankie
- Freddie
- Gabriel
- George
- Grady
- Harlow
- Harper
- Harri
- Harry
- Hunter
- Ivon
- Jamie
- Jan
- Jax
- Jesse
- Joey
- Jude
- Kit
- Kobi
- Leighton
- Lennie
- Lenny
- Leo
- Logan
- Luka
- Marley
- Max
- Monty
- Morgan
- Nico
- Noah
- Nova
- Ollie
- Osian
- Percy
- Phoenix
- Pippin
- Quin
- Quincy
- Rafferty
- Remi
- Remy
- Rhys
- Rian
- Riley
- Rio
- River
- Robin
- Robyn
- Ronnie
- Rory
- Rowan
- Rudi
- Rudy
- Ryan
- Sam
- Sami
- Sidney
- Sky
- Spencer
- Tayler
- Theo
- Tully
- Valentine
- Willow
- Winslow
- Wyatt
- Xander
- Zane
- Ziggy
For even more English name suggestions, check out my list of 194 androgynous character names, including 72 English androgynous names.
Or try my gender-neutral name generator, a bank of 1300 names handpicked from different sources.
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