National Statistics coming soon...

DD1 was born last year and apparently is one of 6 with her name. Out of interest I did check my not-very-short shortlist of names on previous year's lists before she was born and it didn't come up at all so must have had a slight increase in popularity.
I am strangely fascinated by these statistics.

But really 10% Marys and Johns? Must go look on google now!

Basically like Ruthless says. The ONS site says the statistics were from 723,913 live births]]. Out of them there are 7,523 Harrys. That's only 1%. Amelia is even less common, at only 5,054, or 0.7%.

• I didn't split the girls and boys for the %, because I can't quickly locate the total number of boys vs girls born last year.

After last year's stats I read a good article pointing out that even the #1 names are only given to a fraction of one percent of babies that year. Compare to 1900 where 10% were John and 10% Mary (or something).

At 0.1% actually the chances of your Harry being the only one in his class are still pretty good.

it only shows live births, so those Babys really were called Baby, not stillborn unregistered.

5mad, it's not something I ever aimed for but am quite happy the most popular any of my dcs names has got is there being 3 of them last year.

I know one of the 38 Favours. I feel quite special! A friend of mine who is African had a gorgeous baby Favour end of last year. My DD loves her and calls her 'baby Flavour'!

I see Ethel still isnt popular despite Lilly Allen having chosen it as her daughters name.

How do you get the full list on an iPhone ?

thanks will have to work out how to download it, my pc doesnt seem to want to do it! i like that its a bit unusual so i am pleased it hasnt got really popular!

That's sad about Baby, I didn't know that.

If you do a search so control F, it will give the number. Think it's really far down.

thanks ruby dd was born dec 2010 and there were less than 30 that year, so it has gone up, but not by much! how do i find out where that is in the list ie top 300? names?

I do like looking at these lists, my baby making days are over but it's still fun. Why do some people find it awful to hear of others using the same name as their dc's? Just interested as I probably would take it as a compliment.

I never did care where my dc's names where in the list. DS1 is 11 and it was only after I had him and joined a baby Internet forum that I found out his name (Joseph) was top 10 at the time. Yet in the whole 11 years of being at nursery and primary school he's never come across another Joe/Joseph, I've checked the list of boys in his form for senior school and again, not another Joe - so for me, being top 10 at the time of his birth really hasn't meant anything. All 4 of mine were in the top 100 in the year leading up to their birth and 3 still remain in the top 100 but all have slipped places, the other one has gone out of the top 100 (can't see where it is placed as I'm unable to download the doc).

RuthlessBaggage, I'm glad I'm not the only one who's sad enough to think about these things

I think there's a good chance Baby is stillborn babies, possibly ones who didn't have anyone to register them. It's just occured to me that there are three sexes that can be registered - male, female and indetermined. I is given for babies born too early to be able to tell from looking. My baby was registered at the hospital as I but the staff thought she was a girl, as did we and the registrar was happy to register her officially as a girl. Not sure what list those names go onto.

I'm surprised how many girls were called Neveah. I thought it was a joke - "heaven backwards", or am I being ignorant and it is a real name as well?

I imagine the 33 Favours are of African heritage, it's very normal for some cultures to use abstract nouns as names (well it is in British culture too actually - Grace, Faith, Hope)

One of the relay teams the other night (from Nigeria I think) had a Blessing and an Endurance - I couldn't believe they didn't win with those names!

Im surprised how few Arya/Aria''s there were. I honeslty thought it was more popular

Those of you desperate to avoid picking a very popular/trendy name for your child, be warned: one of my children's names is now in the top three but was not particularly popular when I chose it. In fact there were hardly any and the reaction I got from people when I said I liked the name was 'why do you want to use an old person's name?'

Of my four children, two have names in the top 30 and the other two's names don't feature in the top 100 at all although they aren't unusual names.

There were 57 babies given DS1's name in 2011 - the year he was born there were 0 (he was born and registered overseas so he doesn't show up either :o ) I am actually sort of glad there are some others now :) His name is a proper name too, not at all unique :o

DS2 who was actually born in 2011 has a bottom of the top 30 name, but that's OK with me and anyway in the country we actually live in its very unusual (too English).

DD's name was unusual in the UK, where she was born, but the number 1 name for her year of birth, and top 5 in following years, where we now live - there are 3 of them roughly her age on our road, and 2 in her class of 25 kids - even in the UK it's not only regional but in small areas you seem to find "pockets" of a name even though the parents don't know each other, very funny! :)

I think it is but you need to add up all the variations. I think in dd2s primary school there are over 20 Mohammeds in it's various forms.

What happened to Mohammed/Muhammed etc, I read that was the most popular name for a baby boy in England over the last few years.

Isn't baby typically ones that were stillborn? Maybe just a myth.

Oh dear, three girls named 'Maxie'. What if they are a bit chunky? That's going to be awful.