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How popular are the top 100 names?

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nappyaddict · 03/02/2011 19:46

I have just looked through them here

Of the boys names, the only primary aged ones I've not come across are:

Zachary (but I know a Zack)
Gabriel
David
Bailey
Robert
Ewan

And for the girls:

Gracie (but I know Graces)
Anna
Tia
Faith
Hope
Julia
Maria
Florence
Courtney
Maryam

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Imps7 · 08/02/2011 21:37

Hello

The link is here - www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=15282&Pos=&ColRank=1&Rank=422

Go to the year you're interested in and then use the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet. I think that it's tab 6 that has all names registered that particular year. Oh, who am I kidding, I KNOW that it's tab 6 as I look at it pretty much every day... [definite saddo smiley]

I also like looking at the 100 most popular names from throughout the decades - lovely to see how fashions have changed!

kerala · 08/02/2011 21:22

Never met an Oliver! Wow. Ever other baby here is called Oliver its the John of this generation. The other 50% of boys are called Ben.

sonniebonnie · 08/02/2011 17:50

nappy, it was posted here a few weeks back. It must be somewhere on the ONS website, but I just had a quick look but couldn't find it. Maybe someone else knows how to find it?

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nappyaddict · 08/02/2011 13:14

Do you know where you can get them from?

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sonniebonnie · 08/02/2011 13:00

I seem to remember that the ONS publish a list of names by county.

They also publish a list with ALL given names last year - it shows every single name and the number of boys/girls that were named any given name. That should give a good idea of how widespread a certain name is.

CharlotteBronteSaurus · 08/02/2011 12:53

i think there's a fair bit of regional variation too
up here, i've never met an oliver, nor an olivia, yet i believe they've been in the top 3 for a god few years

ValiumSandwichTime · 08/02/2011 12:51

I know a couple of little boys with the names Robert and David. I think people in Ireland are much more conservative with names though.

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nappyaddict · 08/02/2011 12:49

Actually I forgotI do know a Tia and a Faith.

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Fatimalovesbread · 04/02/2011 22:07

Just done a bit of maths with the 2009 figures. The girls top 100 make up 50% of all names where as the boys makes up 60%.

The girls top 10 makes up 13.6% of all names and the boys 16.8%. But there are less boys names overall.

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fifi25 · 04/02/2011 21:39

That i know of we have the following at our school

David
Bailey
Robert
Ewan

Faith
Hope
Gracie

fifi25 · 04/02/2011 21:24

Ive got a Niamh at 70 but shes nearly 10 now. Ive got a Romilly 7 which when i looked was about the 982nd most popular name. Ive got a Connie and thats not in either. No one must like my names Wink

My daughters class has 5 Ellies.

My favorite name is Ethne but everyone hates it.

emsyj · 03/02/2011 23:09

I seem to come across lots and lots of Eves, Evas, Evies, Isobels, Isabelles and Isabellas. Also quite a few Islas of late. Aside from that I haven't noticed multiple babies/children with the same names.

cowboylover · 03/02/2011 23:05

I think its the UK stats website that can give you an exact number of how many babies registered in England and Wales last updated in 2009

I think I remember 5400+ Olivia's

jellybeans · 03/02/2011 19:51

SUMMER

BROOKE

LACEY
LAYLA

JULIA

MARIA

MARYAM

MOHAMMED

CHARLES
BAILEY

The above I don't know any of. Overall though the top 20 names of each are very popular, especially the boys. Every other baby is Oliver/Charlie/Alfie.

said · 03/02/2011 19:49

I thought that there was a smaller cluster of well-used boys names but the spread of girls names was more even. So the Top Ten boys names might be 40% of all names (guess) but Top Fifty girls names might be 50% (have a feeling the maths doesn't stack up there but you know what I mean)