2009 baby names are out!!

[emmylou30]

Hope the link works :)
www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=15282

My pair aren't in the top 100 which is amazing as they are quite ordinary names!

Love Pearl

[weeps quietly]. dd's name continues to rocket up the list. How comes everybody had the same idea, at the same time, the year I was pregnant? Her name was quite unusual before that!

My DD is safely outside the top 2700

I'm outside the top 250....DP is in the top 40 though - commoner

289 Maximilians?????

wish I'd thought of that

The problem with Maximilian is that it will end up as Max.... it's just too long to use regularly imo.

The list of ALL the boys and girls names used last year is really interesting. Given how many names were used (5000ish for boys alone)it seems a shame so many of use the same names...with over 7000 boys named Oliver and another 7000 Jack .

Interesting that no one was "Yoo-Neeq!" With both boys and girls names, at least 3 babies had the same name!

Noeyedear - they do not publish the names given to only 1 or 2 babies for privacy reasons.

My son is Elijah. Thankfully I know no one else with this name...and it's dropped from 136 to 140...so I guess that's something.

Oh! Thanks! That would have saved me trawling down to the end of the list to find the truly unique names if I'd known that! Although, why would it be for privacy reasons? The only thing on the list is the first name!

IGWT - I have an Elijah too - he is nearly 8, I would love to find out how popular it was when he was born in 2002!
I am always disapointed how popular it is, but it is so lovely!
Ours goes by Eli and gets really cross if you call him Elijah .

IGWT and tummytickler - do you get a good reaction to Elijah, it's top of our boys list for baby whose due on Monday!

4 girls were called Tiaamii, which can only be after Jordan's daughter as they made up the name for her

DD name is less popular than 2008. Ha to whoever it is on here that keeps saying it is the new Ruby

Can't believe so many people are stressing about where their baby names are on the list! Number 1 or 1000, what does it matter? I've got two in the top 10 and one way out of it but at least they won't have to spell out their names every time it's asked for. Surely the only important things are whether you like the name and whether it will make your child an object of ridicule for the sake of being 'original'...

Only 69 girls were called DD's name last year, I think that's pretty good going.

backonthedecaff - I get what you mean, but DH and I both have names that rarely fall out of the top ten and there were 7 girls in my year at school with the same name, it was awful! We gave DD a name we came accross in a book for names dating from 1913 with the hope that she wouldn't have the same problem. It's very pretty, but unusual. And suits her perfectly :)

I do !! The majority of people always say; "Oh wow what a lovely name".

There are the 1/4 educated who say,
"After Elijah Wood"
Me: "No after the biblical Prophet"
Them: Blank expression.

I love it! Plus I know he'll be the only one in his class with it...Problem is I didn't think it through and his initials are EDAM. Bugger.

Tummy Tickler- mine is only 8 months !! I didn't consult a baby list, I thought I was having a girl (women's intuition my backside)...I'll wait and see for the abbreviations of Eli, Jah and Lije come....

For anyone else who cares if I was going to have a girl I was going for Ophelia (from Hamlet) until I realised it translated to either servant or serpant. THankfully I had a boy.

Lacey is 67, that's fine with me!

I like to scroll to the very end of the list and see what "unusual" names have been used.

Whilst I am sure TITOBILOLUWA is a lovely name in the parents' mother tongue, I can see the 3 girls given this name in 2009 ending up with a rather unfortunate nickname at school.

And as for the 3 girls named PORSCHE, I take it their parents are petrol heads or unable to spell "Portia"

[judgemental hat firmly on]

thansk for the link emmylou - only 5 other girls have dd's name in 09 :-)

My DS's name has plummeted in popularity...from the top 700 to the top 900

InGodWeTrust - my Elijah has a 'D' middle name too - David!