This page shows the Declan (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Declan was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Declan's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Declan for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Declan appears in 46 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 3,680 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1997, when the table records 284 babies given the name, at rank 32 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Declan for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
202513278
20248404
202314267
202214271
202114286
202021204
201924197
201822208
201721229
201631183
201541143
201451122
20136699
20127988
20117195
20109281
20096698
200811166
20079377
200611364
200514055
200414252
200313654
200217144
200121336
200022235
199923435
199822637
199728432
199620539
199518940
199416648
199312366
19928783
19918684
199049107
19899203
19883337
19874280
19864274
19855253
19844263
19823315
19784271
19773284
19743297

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