Ahead of tomorrow ONS release

@RubyReynolds64 ahh of course, we’ve watched that but not Sex Education!

I think it also fits nicely with the sounds of the popular Ava, Eva, Eve and even Grace, so sounds familiar but people think it’s more unusual than it is.

All I can think is Binchy

[quote KirstenBlest]@PinkWaferBiscuit, the ONS page does show regional data.

There's a map and it will give you the % for that region.

Somme names will be a lot more popular in some areas - for example, a welsh name like Efa or Jac might be more popular in Wales than in West Yorkshire, Ibrahim might be more popular in West Yorkshire than in Cornwall etc[/quote]
Oww how didn I not know this? Thank you I'll go and have a nosey.

@MaverickDanger ‘The Boys’ has a Maeve in as well, the name has definitely seen more limelight recently.

Both Otis and Maeve going up I would put down to the TV series Sex Education as they are the two main characters

Lucy Mcklenburgh (sp?) Named her boy Roman around March 2020 so that might have influenced a few people. I am surprised Jaxon is above Jackson very odd.

Rosie has lept up as well

A lot of names can be traced to a famous person - tv celebrity, film star, film character, pop star, royal baby etc

I knew Arthur would be popular, I’ve run into a few in our neck of the woods and my midwife said she’d delivered loads last year. It’s the most popular name in our region.

DS’ name has slightly climbed, but he’s one of 120+ born last year. Our other options for him are about as equally as popular.

DM is a teacher and has never come across one in a 40 year career - out of her colleagues, one teacher has come across one. Although it’s a bit more popular in another part of the UK.

Really not surprised by Maeve, knew it would take off due to Sex Education. Has Daphne risen significantly? Might be more one for this year after Bridgerton.

Yeah, Roman Kemp was the one I mentioned. But I wondered if there were more high profile Romans as I hadn't thought he had that much influence. But maybe he does.

Indeed but like a previous poster and myself have said over multiple years those 5000 odd children soon add up and therefore it's surprising when you don't come across any at all.

Even baby names that are used 25 times per year add up and you run into others occasionally.

It also adds up over the years.

There's Roman Kemp

[quote Tigger85]@Classica

The only character called Roman I know of in a TV series is Roman Roy in Succession, played by Kieran Caulkin. It's a great show but I don't know how popular it is.[/quote]
Ah! I haven't seen Succession yet but people who love it seem to really love it so maybe that Roman had had an impact.

So glad they’re out!

Was curious for DD’s name (born 2020), she’s one of 27 which is broadly similar to the previous year. Not surprised as I hadn’t heard of any others. A few of my NCT groups names have had a huge rise.

Just did an Advanced Search on the baby names topic... Roman was mentioned a lot last year.

So I scored myself on my predictions!

I got these right!: 😁

• Oliver still to remain at 1st, and George at 2nd
• Noah to fall, but still be in top ten
• Otis to rise from 124th
• Vincent to rise from 136th
• Nathaniel to rise from 137th
• Logan to fall from 29th
• Willow to rise slightly from 19th
• Arabella to rise from 71st
• Thea to rise from 46th
• Chloe to fall from 39th
• Margot to rise from 94th

Got these semi right!:

• Teddy, Edward, Theo and Theodore all to rise - Edward dropped but all the others rose

But got quite a few wrong! 🙈

• Alfie and Archie to fall out of top 20
• Hugo to rise from 48th
• Oakley to fall out of top 100 (at 98th in 2019 data)
• Eli to rise from 107th
• Dexter to rise from 114th
• Bobby to rise from 68th and Robert from 115th
• Harper to fall from 29th
• Penelope to rise from 41st
• Top 20 to remain with majority of names starting with a vowel - in fact 10/20 start with a vowel
• Anna to rise from 82nd
• Lara to rise from 97th
• Beatrix to rise from 164th
• Seren to rise from 196th
• Phoebe to rise slightly from 22nd

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The arrival in the top 100 of Delilah, Myla and Maeve surprised me. Surprised also to see Thea dropping by 11 places in a year, I feel like there's still loads of little Theas round here.

Ronnie rising is surprising to me, and Jayden still being top 100 (just, of course at joint 98th).

@PinkWaferBiscuit, the ONS page does show regional data.

There's a map and it will give you the % for that region.

Somme names will be a lot more popular in some areas - for example, a welsh name like Efa or Jac might be more popular in Wales than in West Yorkshire, Ibrahim might be more popular in West Yorkshire than in Cornwall etc

@Classica

The only character called Roman I know of in a TV series is Roman Roy in Succession, played by Kieran Caulkin. It's a great show but I don't know how popular it is.

Does anyone have the link for the girls one?

Is there a Roman in pop culture that accounts for its leap in popularity? I can think of Roman Kemp but that's about it.

Milo (+28) and Sonny (+22) have also had big jumps, which is funny because those are two names I would have thought had their peak about a decade ago.

Blimey - Maeve has climbed!

Gosh Lyra's rise was larger than I anticipated (up 58 places).

Maeve also rose an impressive 124 places, and if you combine this with last year's rise it's jumped 413 places since 2018.

I like that British Baby Names also separates the top 100 into the Welsh top 100 and the English top 100. It lets me see which Welsh names are popular. Harri for boys (20) (depends how Welsh you consider Arthur (6) to be) and Mali for girls (20).

Aw this just makes me sad.
I love my son and while I’m happy with his name, it wasn’t my choice and it’s rocketed into the top 5 in the last few years. This was my main reason for not wanting it.
I’m giving myself a slap round the face, because he’s still the only one in his school, and surely that’s good enough?
But i think i might not look at these bulletins in future as i think by making people like me sad about the popularity of their children’s names, they then fuel the kind of name divergence which others have alluded to already as ‘not my cup of tea’ etc.

It varies from company to company, but I've found myself working at places where half an office is made up of Davids, Marks, Steves and Ians

I'm in the North East which is apparently an Oliver/Olivia hotspot and I don't know any of either under 18.

Funny too how many of the classic type boys names are kings- William, Henry, Edward (er, and Arthur). Yet other classics (Simon, Robert, Richard) have virtually disappeared.

I agree that the frilly hyphenated names will date; I do think girls names in general are harder to hit the "timeless classic" sweet spot with.

Roman strikes me as not a very pleasant name - like roman nose or roman road or something

The names seem to either be long or frilly or just a pile of vowels with a v, l, m or n.

But even the most popular names are only 4-5000 babies. Less than one percent each. So its that surprising that people never encounter them.