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ONS Baby Names released Monday - your predictions

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RedToothBrush · 14/08/2015 16:28

The England and Wales Stats for 2014 are out on Monday.

Gather here your name nerds and statistic fiends.

What are your predictions?

What will be the top girl/boy name for 2014
What has finally jumped the shark and is dropping like a stone
What will be the biggest riser
What is your prediction for the biggest surprise (riser or faller)
What do you think the new trend will be
What will be the daftest name on the list (remember there have to three children with the name to make the list)

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Pigzoom · 22/08/2015 22:44

My name is now top 100 very rare growing up.
My DDs names are higher than expected but not higher than 140 ish

swimmerforlife · 19/08/2015 12:11

DS name has dropped out of the top 20, so am slightly pleased (born late 2013).

Our frontrunner boy's name for this baby is getting higher (currently around the top 80s) on the plus side all our names on the girls shortlist are dropping in popularity (or static).

Alisvolatpropiis · 19/08/2015 00:07

Efa is an interesting one. It essentially looks like a phonetic version of Aoife but it isn't.

Aoife = ee-fa
Efa = Air-vah

jorahmormont · 18/08/2015 19:31

It's interesting that my name is no longer on the English most popular list but is on the Welsh most popular list. I've never met a little Welsh girl called 'Madison', it's considered very American around here.

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RedToothBrush · 18/08/2015 15:38

The England V Wales Difference

The stats have the top 100 for England and Wales split up.

This is the Welshist of the Welsh List
I have compared the position on the Welsh list with the English list. This is in order of the biggest difference between England and Wales
First number is the position in the Welsh Top 100. Names in Bold are names that don't feature in the English Top 100 list. The second number refers to the place in the English only list.

85 EFA (5515
67 CADI (4526
96 ELERI (2382
48 MALI (1901
91 LOWRI (1736
55 ALYS (1078
67 ELIN (865
69 LILI (851
24 FFION (555
71 CARYS (497
82 CERYS (404
75 NIA (393
11 SEREN (161
69 LOIS (149
15 MEGAN (70
75 MADISON (122
56 HARPER (96
82 MADDISON (119
82 NEVAEH (117
56 HOLLIE (85
51 BROOKE (78
62 LOTTIE (87
39 LEXI (64
42 GRACIE (66
85 MILA (108
85 PAIGE (107
39 SUMMER (60
21 ERIN (42
24 ELLIE (43
35 BELLA (53

The Most Englishist of the English
Same thing as above but this time looking at what is more English compared to the Welsh list
^First number is the position in the English Top 100. Names in Bold are names that don't feature in the Welsh Top 100 list. The second number refers to the place in the Welsh only list

94 VICTORIA (326
75 AISHA (301
89 BEATRICE ( 277
72 MARIA (236
73 MARYAM (236
91 SARAH (251
82 BETHANY (236
93 JULIA (183
65 ZARA (150
78 HEIDI (159
84 FRANCESCA (159
90 NANCY (150
77 LEAH (133
61 HARRIET (113
47 ELIZA (91
71 VIOLET (113
44 MAYA (85
36 ELIZABETH (75
58 HANNAH (96
62 ROSE (99
99 ZOE (133
92 ISABEL (124
25 ALICE (56
34 MATILDA (62
26 FLORENCE (53
68 ANNA (93
52 ANNABELLE (75
23 CHARLOTTE (46
73 DARCEY (93
76 KATIE (96
32 ELSIE (50
59 ELEANOR (75
55 EMILIA (71
46 ABIGAIL (61

The Scottishest of the Scots
Bit more difficult to do as the stats are different. However these are the names that appear in the top 100 Scottish names but not in England or Wales:
Abbie, Aimee, Alexis, Aria, Arianna, Ayla, Caitlin, Cara, Eilidh, Elise, Iona, Kayla, Lauren, Lena, Mirren, Mya, Neve, Niamh, Orla, Rachel, Rebecca, Robyn, Skye

Madison, Mila & Paige appear on the Scottish and Welsh lists but not English.

Bethany, Eve, Julia, Leah, Sarah, Zara & Zoe appear on the Scottish and English lists but not the Welsh

I'll try and do the boys when I get chance.

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MitzyLeFrouf · 18/08/2015 13:27

My friend just had a little Morven. I know a handful of Scottish Morvens so am very surprised that no Morvens were registered in England or Wales in 2014.

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joia · 18/08/2015 08:23

The predictions about Anna and Elsa were wrong? They won't go up by hugely now will they?

I was interested to see whether this would rise just because were so many threads about it. Elsa soared from position 183 to 104. I'd say top hundred next time. I haven't even checked to see the position of our chosen name for DC and strangely not very interested in finding out...

windolen · 18/08/2015 08:17

My 11 year old niece and her friends are discussing the very same thing on another site, apparently (it's not you is it, OP, similar links etc). Name nerds indeed! That's what they call themselves. It all seems a bit childish

ch1134 · 18/08/2015 06:31

The predictions about Anna and Elsa were wrong? They won't go up by hugely now will they?

Milkyway1304 · 18/08/2015 00:08

My name doesn't feature anymore. Clearly of its time- I know quite a few of us around my own age.

Lunastarfish · 17/08/2015 22:43

48 Myra's Shock

NothingUpMySleeve · 17/08/2015 22:43

DS1's name is still down in the 1000's, DS2 is getting close to top 100.

Not really that bothered about the figures, but I've never been as utterly certain that we had the right name second time round. Given the popularity, looks like plenty of other people prefer Ds2's name!

Enkopkaffetak · 17/08/2015 22:35

well dd1's name is now High 20th Sad when she was born 18 years ago it was not in the top 100.

dd2 and 3 plus ds dd3 is in 209th posistion ds and dd3 are in 1000th.

Happier with that as what we wanted was unusual but not weird names so feel we have managed well with those.

Had a sneaky look at other names we had down for them I am very happy we didn't name dd2 Amelia.. (was on our shortlist) other names we had for each of the children would have been from 200 and down.

FATEdestiny · 17/08/2015 22:15

Some really lovely names right at the bottom of the boys name list. I am surprised these are not more popular.

Teal
Sabian
Moss
Davie

Disappointing at the bottom end of the girls list though. A very large proportion of different spellings and hyphenated names, rather than unique names

Apples - scroll across the tabs at the bottom to table six. Then press Control and F. Types the name into the Find box and click 'Find All'

ApplesTheHare · 17/08/2015 22:12

Cheers Red Smile

nailsathome · 17/08/2015 22:09

We went with Loki, wanted a name outside the top 100 so I'm happy with that

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RedToothBrush · 17/08/2015 21:59

Apples, go to the link for the full list above. The full list is on one of the tabs on the excel sheet

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marshmallowpies · 17/08/2015 21:59

Apples I have the 2013 file downloaded as an excel file and then you can sort by A-Z and find the name you need...

NoArmaniNoPunani · 17/08/2015 21:54

The name we've chosen is number 2600and something.

ApplesTheHare · 17/08/2015 21:33

Is there a way to search for a specific name? I can only seem to see lists of top 10 or top 100...

ch1134 · 17/08/2015 21:29

Yes, and it always makes me think of mealy worms.

KERALA1 · 17/08/2015 21:24

Wow how is Amelia so popular? Super dull.

jorahmormont · 17/08/2015 19:39

DD's name has dropped in popularity - only 23 Celyns last year (the year she was born) combined with 38 the year before. Favourite name for potential DD2 isn't on the list... bad sign or good? Grin

marshmallowpies · 17/08/2015 18:42

RedToothbrush there are also 4 Divas alongside 4 Dynasties!

I think Sienna with the extra N is the name of the colour pigment used by artists - it's the name of the colour rather than the town which has caught on, although I'm sure they are related to each other. (Perhaps Sienna is the Anglicized version of Siena the town?)

I'm surprised there aren't more typical Welsh names higher up the Wales only list - I thought Seren was always high up in Wales?