That's good

Thanks mrswoolf - is good news for me as my DD was born in 2008. Thought it was pretty typical that would be the year they didn't publish.

ONS are going to release the 2008 stats after all. Will be July/August this year.

Good news, I think!

Scottish most popular names 2008

As I understand it, it would appear that the data source is one that ONS no longer has access to and that it is for the Dept of Health to decide whether or not to produce the stats. Whilst i like to use the list for inspiration, I guess there are other priorities in DoH at the moment.

MrsWoolf I understand totally. I use ONS social stats for my job, in which I make decisions on how to spend significant sums of public funding. I fully understand the social and political need for these kind of stats, the importance of recording them, trend analysis etc. What I was saying was that, possibly, in the current economic climate, the top 100 baby names for 2008 may not necessarily be priority public expenditure. I work in the public sector in an area that has suffered chronic underfunding over the last decade, with catastrophic results and prioritisation of public expenditure is very close to my heart.

Bikerunski - It isn't just about the top 100 baby names. Onomastics is a serious business and not just of interest to expectant parents. The ONS provide more than the top 100, they also provide the top 2000, plus associated figures and percentages. They also study changing social trends in nomenclature and contrast over the decades etc etc
It is as worthy a topic for publication as for e.g. How we spend our time survey, or household chores and gender etc etc
I think non-publication this year has as much (if not more) to do with the necessitation of using alternative data source and associated extra time and resources than just a matter of cutting public funding.
The Scottish stats have been published and as a pp has said the English and Welsh stats should be made available also.

MrsWeasley - oops, sorry wasn't correcting you (those are the only stats we do have after all) just activating my link second time around.

I agree BikeRunSki was just surprised!

If costs need to be cut in public spending, I'd rather it was done by not doing the ONS baby name top 100, than taking any money from hospitals, emergency services, flood defence, schooling etc

oh ok sorry