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2010 stats released today

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PrincessJenga · 28/07/2011 09:48

Last year's statistics have just been released http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=184 online

Oliver and Olivia still top names.

I'm about to scour the rest of the list for inspiration and to check the names I've chosen aren't too popular

What do we think?

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Xiaoxiong · 28/07/2011 16:39

Ah, there were 3 in 2008 - but still, none in the last two years. To be less popular than "Motty" as a boy's name - that's pretty funny.

scarlettlips · 28/07/2011 16:40

Just thinking what it must be like to be a midwife or doctor and all day long you are hearing...we are going to call him/her Charlie, Oliver, Ruby or Grace etc...

God I need to get out more..Blush

Xiaoxiong · 28/07/2011 16:41

Nope - it's the patron saint of Cornwall, Pirran. DH is even wavering because he thinks it's "too common" (well, maybe it is if you're a billion generations Cornish like he is...)

Lainey1981 · 28/07/2011 16:43

I like it, definitely. Ot common in any place I've lived

Lainey1981 · 28/07/2011 16:44

*not

voodoomunkee · 28/07/2011 16:44

Gahhhh, 2nd most popular girls name....2nd!!! I have not met any called Sophie yet and it is 2nd most popular.

IvyAndGold · 28/07/2011 16:45

DD's name is up on there, and up from last year, but I've still never heard another girl with her name! And I'm surprised Isabella isn't higher, I know so many!

voodoomunkee · 28/07/2011 16:45

Just to clarify, was a choice that both OH and I agreed on (only one). Now am thinking it will probably have to be rethunk!

NinthWave · 28/07/2011 16:47

My DS2's name is Reuben - we wanted Sebastian but thought that Reuben was a 'safer' choice. However it seems that Sebastian is 20 places above Reuben, so perhaps not eh Grin

MelinaM · 28/07/2011 16:48

Is anyone else finding this as hilarious as me?!!! Boys names Diamond, Desire, Heaven and Miley.... really?!!!

princessdave · 28/07/2011 16:49

Sophie is a lovely name Voodoomunkee, none of our friends/family have a Sophie or a Sophia so it was also on our (long) list before we settled on Jessica (doh) which I am pushing to change to Elodie. We'll see. It might be a boy and then we picked Harry (double doh).

I love Isabella IvyandGold but luckily we used it for the cat 4 years ago otherwise there could have been another little girl called Izzy :)

bilblio · 28/07/2011 16:51

Tyel It's normally Piran though isn't it? I went to school with a Piran, and looking at the list there were 11 in 2010. There were some Perran's too.

4madboys · 28/07/2011 17:01

i cant get it to open, grr can anyone tell me how many Merryns there were last year? :)

4madboys · 28/07/2011 17:01

obviously is Merryn :)

stardustn · 28/07/2011 17:02

39 Merryns, at no.896 :)

4madboys · 28/07/2011 17:04

thankyou, thats not too bad! we dont know any others and everyone asks where we got it from as they have never heard of it.

i think it may be more popular in cornwall area tho as it is a cornish name :)

nappyaddict · 28/07/2011 17:05

Merryn is lovely :)

stardustn · 28/07/2011 17:09

Oh, that's girls. There were also 4 boy Merryns last year :)

4madboys · 28/07/2011 17:11

well ours is a girl :)

i do know a boy whose name is pronounced merryn, but they spell it differently, its croatian.

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 28/07/2011 17:11

3 Messiahs. That's going to get nasty later.

housemum · 28/07/2011 17:14

39 Merryn's - well down the list! There were over 1000 Amelie's so why does eveyone pretend they have never heard of it, or else call her Amy-Lee (of which there were less than 100 if you also count Aimee-Lee/Amy-Leigh etc). I do not look like a Tammy Wynette or Dolly Parton fan! (Sorry to anyone with a double name, but names like that make me think of country & western singers)

Xiaoxiong · 28/07/2011 17:15

bilblio, oops you're absolutely right there are 11 Pirans - I stand corrected. Thank god it's more common than Tyger. Still no Pirrans though and at least it's still not "so common" we need to find a new name!

DH is insistent it's spelled Pirran as otherwise there's...something...I dunno, he's the Cornish one who cares about this stuff and actually speaks some Cornish so I defer to him on all things Kernewek. I don't mind as I know my parents read Piran as "pie-ran" or "pir-AN" (like the country with a p in front) when we first proposed it.

Just to stir it up I am still holding out for Egbert, the King of Wessex who reduced the Cornish to serfs in 802 AD Grin I really don't think there are any Egberts on the 2010 list!!

seeker · 28/07/2011 17:17

Just goes to show that most people are sensible about naming their children and take the job seriously!

And I know a lot of babies and know 2 Olvers - one 10 and one 17, and one Olivia, who's 10. Just goes to show that the most popular names aren't really
that common.

Xiaoxiong · 28/07/2011 17:18

Also...there were 6 boys last year just called "A" and 6 other boys just called "T"?!

Does this list cover middle names too?

MelinaM · 28/07/2011 17:23

17 boys names Baby?!!!!! ...utterly bizarre!!!!