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VolAuVent · 05/08/2012 13:47

Title: Baby Names, England and Wales - 2011
Release date: 13 August 2012 at 9:30am

Title: Babies First Names Bulletin (Northern Ireland) - 2011
Release date: 31 August 2012 at 9:30am

Title: Babies First Names, Scotland - 2012
Provisional release date: December 2012

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Niceupthedance · 13/08/2012 13:03

There were 108 Maxsymillion's born last year. Wow.

Only 59 with DS's name. That's gone down a few.

butisthismyname · 13/08/2012 13:02

We were going to call dd1 Noah had she been a boy - again, is suddenly really popular, but back then we were thought completely barking Grin

RubyFakeNails · 13/08/2012 13:02

I'm trying not to die laughing, I'm Jewish so to me being called Yisrael/Israel is normal but really 5 called Isreal, is that just poor spelling or am I missing something?

manicinsomniac · 13/08/2012 12:59

Kendodd If you click on the data link choose the last spreadsheet (number 6 I think). It has all the names on it.

SlightlySuperiorPeasant · 13/08/2012 12:58

Thanks Turquoise!

The actual spelling for DD's name is edging closer to the top 100 but not close enough for me to care.

DS's name is in the 300's :o

The name we would have given to a DS2 is 101. Too close! His chosen middle name isn't even on the spreadsheet though so that's alright.

I feel extremely sorry for those children who have been given almost-normal names with a typo making them yooneek. Scarlotte? Confused

ToddlingTerror I like Darcy for a girl. Darcey Bussel anyone?

butisthismyname · 13/08/2012 12:55

And the other dd is 45 not 46 - I am going mad!

Astr0naut · 13/08/2012 12:55

Dd's middle name is top. But we chose it because we were looking for female icons and sadly, couldn't think of that many. If she was a boy, middle name would be literary hellraiser. Her first name is nowhere to be seen.

butisthismyname · 13/08/2012 12:53

Oh no - it's 23..

butisthismyname · 13/08/2012 12:52

Oh, haha - the name is at 22, and wierdly she is 22 too (outed totally now...)

pinkgirlythoughts · 13/08/2012 12:45

Ds has dropped slightly, although his nickname has risen a bit. The other two names that we considered for him have both risen, one of them quite considerably. I'm glad we went for the one we did :)

PuffPants · 13/08/2012 12:45

Why can I only see top 10? Is there a separate link for top 100?

accidentalchickenkeeper · 13/08/2012 12:43

My DS just scraped the top 100. He was born in 2008 and was about 80/100 then. The major upside of this as I have found now I'm labelling his new school clothes is I only have to write his first name. He is the only John in the school Grin

It's quite an old fashioned name and certainly didn't suit him as a baby but he's grown into it now and I can't imagine him being called anything else

OneLittleToddlingTerror · 13/08/2012 12:41

Thanks Turquoisecat

520 Darcy baby girls? (Adding to the 179 Beau up thread)

Am I think only one to associate Darcy to Mr Darcy and therefore a boy's name?

Turquoisecat · 13/08/2012 12:40

Arses, getting my questions/answers mixed up!! Serves me right for trying to eat lunch, be helpful and gawp at the stats at the same time!!

kosher - see my above reply to slightly!!

slightly - I've just been doing a find on the table six. I;m on a mac, so it;s the apple and f buttons. Presumably on a PC it's CTRL+Alt+F?

Turquoisecat · 13/08/2012 12:36

slightly - you can download the excel file from here and look at table 6 for the full list of names.

melissa - think you'll need to go to the media requests section?

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SlightlySuperiorPeasant · 13/08/2012 12:32

How do you search the data to find a specific name?

I see a variation of our chosen name for DD is climbing, bah. Top 80 this year. Chosen middle name has just jumped into the top 50. Noooo! I know at least one baby per top 10 name.

DS's name isn't on there at all. I'm not expecting that to change ever, bar the random creation of some superstar celebrity or other.

KosherBacon · 13/08/2012 12:31

OK,am I being thick? Can somebody post a link to the full data and not the top 100?

rachel234 · 13/08/2012 12:22

"I have one girl at 22 (we were laughed at naming her this 20-odd years ago....)"

Do you mean 22 girls with that name or position 22 (with lots of girls named that name)?

RubyFakeNails · 13/08/2012 12:20

4 girls called PASSION thats worse than the 3 called Chavy

RubyFakeNails · 13/08/2012 12:19

5madthings There were 36 Merryns

butisthismyname · 13/08/2012 12:17

I have one girl at 22 (we were laughed at naming her this 20-odd years ago....), one girl at 46, and ds is at 12. Good names I think Grin

rachel234 · 13/08/2012 12:15

Bunny isn't all that different to the other trendy cutesy names like Poppy or Kitty imo.

GoingforGoingforGOLD · 13/08/2012 12:14

There were three girls called Bunny Shock

rachel234 · 13/08/2012 12:14

Anybody know whether these names are only FIRST names of could they be middle names too?