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How to find how popular a name is?

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Stillmonday · 06/09/2018 10:12

Does anyone have a link to a website that tells me how popular a name is please?

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moredoll · 07/09/2018 23:28

another vote for Darkgreener. Only covers England and Wales though.

names.darkgreener.com

Sunflower321 · 06/09/2018 14:27

Great, thanks for the links. Very interesting.

WhyIsntGeorgeCalledPeterOrPaul · 06/09/2018 14:01

Darkgreener website is easily the best. It uses the ONS data from the spreadsheets above, but also includes the data for the last 20 years, so you can get a picture of how popular the name has been over time rather than just last year. All with a super easy search function. Love it.

PutneyBridge · 06/09/2018 13:55

Oh sorry, I hadn’t refreshed the thread since loading it this morning!

PutneyBridge · 06/09/2018 13:55

You can download the full spreadsheet of official ONS data here:
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/babynamesenglandandwales/2016/relateddata

Haworthia · 06/09/2018 11:48

Everybody? DYAC. I meant every Grin

Haworthia · 06/09/2018 11:48

You need the National Statistics baby name spreadsheets. They list EVERYBODY name registered, all the way down to those with a count of three (they leave off the totally unique/barmy names for anonymity reasons). I’ll find a link for you now.

Sunflower321 · 06/09/2018 11:46

Yes, you're right and that could be it (although the names were used about 20 times in 2016).

wildewillow · 06/09/2018 11:31

Sunflower - plenty of names come up that are not in top 100/500/1000. But I think it will only work if there are more than 2 births registered of that name in a year. Possibly that's why it's not working for your names and they are rare.

I have seen on nameberry you can look at the uk top 1000 names for 2016 too.

Sunflower321 · 06/09/2018 11:17

Snuggy, thanks but that also only includes the top 500 names.

But the darkgreener site above includes ALL names given (or at least those used at least 3 times). Thanks for the link.

Sunflower321 · 06/09/2018 11:13

Wilde, no neither my name, ds or dd's name are included, it says' it found in our data'. So I assume it only includes the 100 most popular names?

SnuggyBuggy · 06/09/2018 11:10

Try this

www.behindthename.com/top/lists/england-wales/2016

wildewillow · 06/09/2018 11:06

Sunflower - you can search any name in the search section and it tells you how many babies were born. Not just top 100.

Sunflower321 · 06/09/2018 10:53

That article doesn't seem to include any names outside the top 100, sadly. Still interesting though.

wildewillow · 06/09/2018 10:41

This article tell you how many babies were born in 2016 for each name. You can search names for both sexes. 2017 stats haven't been released yet.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/20/harper-arlo-albie-baby-names-rocketing-popularity/amp/

Stuckforthefourthtime · 06/09/2018 10:16

names.darkgreener.com is great!

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