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Name Nerds: Assemble! ONS Baby Names 2016 predictions

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ZoyaTheDestroyer · 19/08/2017 13:49

Although I can't find an exact publication date, the ONS name data for 2016 is due to be published soon.

Chime in here with your predictions for the climbers and those that will fall.

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ZoyaTheDestroyer · 20/09/2017 23:10

Im kinda suprised at Emily and Jessica being in the top ten, it feels like they've been popular since forever, arent people bored of them yet?

This is precisely how I feel about Jack. Lovely name and all that but it was top three for twenty-one years. There are adult Jacks from its Nineties heyday now having their own kids.

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Alisvolatpropiis · 20/09/2017 23:07

I think this may be a location popularity thing re Jessica. I live in Cardiff and there are no little Jessica's that I know of or have heard in passing. It must be popular everywhere else but!

DiegoMadonna · 20/09/2017 23:04

Jessica at number 8 is the lowest it's been in decades!

Alisvolatpropiis · 20/09/2017 22:42

I'm surprised by Jessica. I don't know of any under about 25. Where are all the baby Jessica's?

charlyn · 20/09/2017 22:40

Im kinda suprised at Emily and Jessica being in the top ten, it feels like they've been popular since forever, arent people bored of them yet?
I keep bumping in to baby and toddler Ted/Teddys so not suprised its high and as others have pointed out if you combine them with the Theodores I expect that Teddy is much higher.

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ZoyaTheDestroyer · 20/09/2017 20:37

Peach interesting - and unsurprising, judging by all of the threads here about appropriating lovely boys' names for girls!

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PeachIcedT · 20/09/2017 19:59

There were around 28000 different boys names compared to around 35000 different girls names recorded in 2016

Theoistfit · 20/09/2017 19:52

Emmy - I've met both. Brothers!

Alisvolatpropiis · 20/09/2017 19:17

My daughter's name remains steadily around 120 (though not exactly that), which pleases me.

Astonished at how high Ivy is!

PeachIcedT · 20/09/2017 19:00

Arlo doubled from around 600 in 2015 to around 1200 in 2016!

LesDennishair · 20/09/2017 18:45

Iris has jumped quite a bit. I think that was mentioned.

EmmyInTheSticks · 20/09/2017 18:16

Ronnie and Reggie in the top 100! I have never met a baby with either of these names.

TheVoiceOfTreason · 20/09/2017 13:07

Cheers Diego! I still can't get the ONS list to work, I've just gone from the mumsnet article so I hadn't seen what the movements were, and thought from recollection it was mid 20s last year! Cheers.

My other fave boy names are all pretty high too...my favourite girl names are all either v high (Evie/Eva for e.g.), or not in there at all (Larisa!)

DiegoMadonna · 20/09/2017 12:43

Actually Isaac was 20th last year and this year. But went from 2829 to 2662 babies, so slightly less popular this year.

TheVoiceOfTreason · 20/09/2017 12:41

Damn it, Isaac (my preferred name if if I have a boy) appears to have gone up. 😔

DiegoMadonna · 20/09/2017 12:36

Arlo went from 102 to 49 - WOW. I knew it was super popular this year but that is a huge jump.

No surprise to see Ezra breaking into the top 100 either.

juneybean · 20/09/2017 12:24

Ooo the ones on my list there were only 9 of my boys name and 0 of my girls name, hurrah!

Threeandabit · 20/09/2017 12:20

Sorry, ignore me!

Threeandabit · 20/09/2017 12:19

Has it been released yet?

kally195 · 20/09/2017 12:16

Ours continues to decline in popularity and had slid into the mid 600s now. Quite pleased really, as we were both 80's kids with at least four other kids with the same name in our classes all the way through school (and were therefore given 'fun' descriptive names).

Am I the only horrible judgey pants who reads the full list and internally berates those who seem to think that spelling Thea with an 'i' (or similar) makes it more unique?!

Desperad0 · 20/09/2017 11:57

howthelightgetsin you were right, with all the Theos, Theodores and Teddys together they would be more like number 4 or 5!

euanthesheepiloveyou · 20/09/2017 11:39

Quite chuffed that all 6 of mine are still outside the top 100.

HeyRoly · 20/09/2017 11:26

Oh, not as much as I was expecting actually. I know Ivy has increased massively over the past three years or so.

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ZoyaTheDestroyer · 20/09/2017 11:05

Elsie up 2
Ivy up 9
Violet up 3

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HeyRoly · 20/09/2017 11:02

Wow, Elsie and Ivy at 31 and 33. I knew they would be shooting up the charts, but I didn't think they'd be that high.

Has Violet gone down a bit?

(I have a thing for old lady names, as you can probably tell )

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