Name JACK 2.22% OLIVER 2.05% CHARLIE/CHARLES 1.83% MOHAMMED/MUHAMMAD/MUHAMMED 1.82% THOMAS 1.67% HARRY 1.66% JOSHUA 1.58% ALFIE 1.54% SAMUEL/SAM 1.53% DANIEL 1.43% JAMES 1.43% WILLIAM 1.43% BENJAMIN/BEN 1.28% GEORGE 1.16% JOSEPH 1.04% LEWIS 0.96% ETHAN 0.95% DYLAN 0.93% ALEXANDER 0.89% JACOB 0.87% RYAN 0.84% FINLAY/FINLIE 0.83% LIAM 0.83% JAKE 0.77% MAX 0.75% LUKE 0.71% TYLER 0.71% CALLUM 0.70% MATTHEW 0.70% JAYDEN 0.70% OSCAR 0.67% ARCHIE 0.64% ADAM 0.64% RILEY 0.61% HARVEY 0.61% HARRISON 0.60% LUCAS 0.58% HENRY 0.55% ISAAC 0.54% LEO 0.53% CONNOR 0.52% EDWARD 0.50% LOGAN 0.47% NOAH 0.46% CAMERON 0.45% ZACHARY/ZAK 0.45% ALEX 0.45% OWEN 0.44% RHYS 0.44% NATHAN 0.44%
And girls, which are much more heterogenous, with 34043 names used, top 50:
It's interesting that even if your child's name is say Jack, the most popular name, only 2.2 (!) out of a hundred children would have that name. And there are only 30 in a class, so he might still be the only one in his class of 30 ish which would be 15 boys (approx).
For my child's class that holds up. There is one Jack.
13 years ago when my dd was born, people said "Oh how lovely!" How unusual" "Is it a family name?" One person even assumed we were religious and were thanking God for her with her name ~ (we were very old first time parents.
Funny, a few years ago Ruby and Lily were so offbeat and unusual - now look at them - my name is there too and when I was born it was so unusual. I hope Violet doesn't go the same route. I avoid all such names like the plague - nothing in the top 200 please!!
Neither my dd's or ds's name are on the list of 100 most popular names. I'd be interested to see longer lists, including the top 500 or top 1000 names (or all 26,000 boys names).
I was quite happy to marry DH and take the name.
