Lily & Mohammed the real number ones

[pickler]

The REAL top names are..

1. Mohammed - 7528
2. Oliver - 7364
3. Jack - 7275
4. Harry - 6332
5. Thomas - 5857
6. Alfie - 5565
7. Joshua - 5531
8. Charlie - 5530
9. William - 5255

10. Daniel - 4670 11. James - 4549 12. George - 4383 13. Samuel - 4346 14. Jacob - 3776 15. Ethan - 3729 16. Joseph - 3677 17. Lucas - 3555 18. Jayden - 3515 19. Dylan - 3478 20. Benjamin - 3319 21. Oscar - 3219 22. Finlay - 3189 23. Lewis - 3114 24. Archie - 3085 25. Alexander - 2997

1. LILY 5856
2. OLIVIA 5450
3. ISABELLE 5165
4. RUBY 4695
5. EMILY 4654
6. CHLOE 4507
7. SOPHIE 4496
8. JESSICA 4321
9. GRACE 4214

10. AMELIA 3692 11. EVIE 3416 12. AMY 3106 13. HOLLY 3051 14. LUCY 2921 15. ELLA 2914 16. MIA 2888 17. ISABELLA 2880 18. AVA 2856 19. CHARLOTTE 2778 20. SOPHIA 2603

I'm very suprised not to see Edward on the list!
I come aacross Edwards all over the place... maaybe because they are Eddy/Eddie/Ed/Teddy etc?

Well, at least they do report international news and they're not anti-British, particularly. They have also been reporting William and Kate's impending engagement this week! [hconfused] (Sorry to sidetrack the thread)

My ds is an Edward and at 3 resolutely does not want to be called anything else! [hsmile]

Are William and Kate getting engaged? Why do they expect that?

I also know of several Mohammeds who go by their middle names day to day but were registered as Mohammed.

I enjoyed reading the combined spellings list, thankyou for posting.

I also know several Aimees and all are said 'Amy' as usual.

I've no idea valium but it's all over the news. [hconfused]

valium - I don't know how OP arrived at Muhammad as no:1 name, but I read just the other day that this name, together with all its reincarnations, was no:7.

I've just been a bit geeky: according to National Statistics online and there were 706,248 live births in UK in 2000.

This means that 1.06 % of (all) babies were called Mohammed, and 0.8% Isabel. Presumably you can roughly double the %ages for proportion of boys and proportion of girls.

noeyedear -Turkish form of Muhammed would be "Mehmet" which is quite a rare name these days. We do call the Prophet "Muhammed" but I don't remember ever meating a "Muhammed". It would be a very pretentious name, and rather odd. Like meeting a Christian English boy named "Jesus" (I'm aware that it is a name in some other cultures).

Cote. Take a look at the stats. Add all the Mohammeds together and you will come to the same number. I think whoever said it was number 7 only calculated the Mohammeds in the top 100.

Oh, to have that kind of time [hgrin]

MOHAMMED 3300
MUHAMMAD 2162
MOHAMMAD 1073
MOHAMED 387
MOHAMAD 33
MOHAMMOD 18
MUHAMMED 515
MUHAMED 27
MUHAMAD 10
MOHMMAD 3

=7528

It took 3 minutes.

I sorted the whole girl's name list alphabetically and went through it adding up names that looked like they should sound the same. It's not a scientific approach, just for personal interest and there will definitely be points on which people disagree.

Obviously sometimes you get even the same spelling of a name being pronounced in different ways, which is just one of the reasons why I think the only way that the ONS can legitimately report these stats is to group only the names that are spelt identically.

Btw I make no apologies for having plenty of time on my hands since I am on maternity leave with as yet no baby to look after and have just moved to a different country where I don't speak the language or know anyone except DH who is out at work all day!

Btw Lily was the most popular hyphenated name with 1338.

The thing with a lot of shorter names like Evie is that there are potentially quite a few longer versions of it, however good point maryz that even if you add up the longer names there are clearly far fewer than the diminution:

EVIE 3416
EVA 1534
EVELYN 795
EVE 638
EVIE-something 206
EVANGELINE 151
EVA-something 34
EVELINA 33
EVANGELINA 12
EVANA 9
EVIN 7
EVITA 6
EVALINE 3
EVANIA 3
EVELYN-ROSE 3

I've only looked at the girls (as am expecting a DD), there were 5201 Olivia's with that spelling and I threw in others like Oliwia (240) and Olivija (presume eastern european?) and Olivea, but not Olive (97).

Versions of Isabelle:
ISABELLA 2880
ISABELLE 5165
IZZY 112
IZZA 19
ISABELLA-something 15
ISABELLE-ROSE 8

These include anything that sounds like the above but not names like Isadora or Ishbel. I just add up all the names that look like they sound the same and put the total next to the most popular version before deleting all the other rows from my spreadsheet.

The original spreadsheet (girls) is here: www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_population/2009-girls.xls

Don't forget Isobel and Isobelle!

Oh are those included in the Isabelles?

picker those are aggregated under Isabelle, sorry I didn't explain it very well - the list above is different sounding variants on Isabelle for maryz.

x post! yes!

Jayden, Jaiden, Jaden, Jadon, Jaydon, Jaidon, Jaydn etc etc..

I've only ever met 2 - one spelt Jayden and one Jaiden.

Jaden, Jaydon all common over here, for girls as well.

x-post with pickler.