Boys combined top names

[pickler]

I have added all the different spellings from the boys 2009 ONS stats. I didn't put Jake/Jacob, Oliver/Ollie Ben/Benjamin etc together, and I didn't include any hyphenated names either.

Max, Alex and Ben would be in the top 10 if I had added all the Ben, Max names and Alex/Alexander together.

1. Mohammed - 7528
   
2. Oliver - 7364
   
3. Jack - 7275
   
4. Harry - 6332
   
5. Thomas - 5857
   
6. Alfie - 5565
   
7. Joshua - 5531
   
8. Charlie - 5530
   
9. William - 5255
   

10. Daniel - 4670
11. James - 4549
12. George - 4383
13. Samuel - 4346
14. Jacob - 3776
15. Ethan - 3729
16. Joseph - 3677
17. Lucas - 3555
18. Jayden - 3515
19. Dylan - 3478
20. Benjamin - 3319
21. Oscar - 3219
22. Finlay - 3189
23. Archie - 3085
24. Lewis - 3114
25. Alexander - 2997


My head hurts! Anyone fancy doing the girls following the same principles?

[valiumskeleton]

So Mohammed is really the number one name?! My friend who has a Jack wil lbe pleased.

[pickler]

Lewis should be 23 and Archie 24.

[Giddyup]

FIL said Mohammed was top, I told him to stop reading the Daily Mail. But I shan't apologise, I shan't! He still needs to stop reading the nasty rag

[CrazyPlateLady]

My nan said Mohammad was top too (she also reads the DM) and I said no, its only in the midlands. I didn't know they weren't including the 14 different spellings of it. Surely it is still the same bloody name.

[pickler]

I'm not some crazed DM reader BTW. It really is No. 1!

[runningrach]

I did some aggregating of the girls names, just for my own purposes so not everyone will agree with the groupings but (if I can remember correctly now my brain is fuddled!) I followed similar rules to you pickler, only combining where they appeared to sound exactly the same. No promises on accuracy either!

1. LILY 5856
   
2. OLIVIA 5450
   
3. ISABELLE 5165
   
4. RUBY 4695
   
5. EMILY 4654
   
6. CHLOE 4507
   
7. SOPHIE 4496
   
8. JESSICA 4321
   
9. GRACE 4214
   

10. AMELIA 3692
11. EVIE 3416
12. AMY 3106
13. HOLLY 3051
14. LUCY 2921
15. ELLA 2914
16. MIA 2888
17. ISABELLA 2880
18. AVA 2856
19. CHARLOTTE 2778
20. SOPHIA 2603

[pickler]

Brilliant runningrach! It really does fry your brain doing it doesn't it!