National Statistics coming soon...

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Title: Baby Names, England and Wales - 2011
Release date: 13 August 2012 at 9:30am

Title: Babies First Names Bulletin (Northern Ireland) - 2011
Release date: 31 August 2012 at 9:30am

Title: Babies First Names, Scotland - 2012
Provisional release date: December 2012

Ooh, exciting, I wonder how many babies were given the same name as DD!

Last week on holiday, every other boy seemed to have the same name as DS2.

It was way, way down the table 9 years ago. I'm wondering if it's hit the top ten.

What names do you think will have shot up the tables?

There seem to be lots of Kittys, and quite a few Elliots, Oscars, Noahs, Jakes. Far more unusual names about too.

will be interesting to see if my dd's name has gone up the charts, the year she was born there were less than 30 of them in the whole country, since then i have seen it mentioned a few times on mnet.

my eldest two are Theo and Oscar, they are 12 and 10yrs old and there werent many of them around, but in the under 5 age group there are loads of them!

Can't wait till the stats for dd year comes out. She's 5 month. We were in the park the other day n heard her name being called. Turned round n it was a lil border terrier!

I know lots of Sophies, it's got to be number one or two!

Oooh I can't wait! DS1 is due on 14th August so I am torn between feeling uncomfortable and wanting him to come NOW and wanting him to hang on until his due date so I can see where his potential names placed last year!

I cant wait! I bet ivy, harper, scarlett and grace, sophia are least top 20!

Boys lucas,oscar, and oliver!!

Glad im due xmas eve and can see if my names ive choosen are popular

I predict big leaps for Violet, Isla, Iris, Martha, Bella, Seren, Phoebe, and all the hyphenated names ending -Rose and -Mae.

Ava surely no 1 for girls if my local sample is representative!

Boys -big leaps for Arlo, Xavier, Jude, William, Logan, Edward, Henry, George, Sebastian, Noah and Elijah.

Number one -Oliver or Harry?

Does anyone have the link to the current stats?

I recon Amelia is gotta be up there for girls. There's ALOT of Amelia's, Amelia grace and Amelia rose knocking around where I live

I'm almost too afraid to look! I know my DS and DD's names will have leapt up the charts,

Big leaps for Louie/Louis everyother boy around here is called that (no Lewis's though) or Jenson.

DS is one of the names mentioned in bird's list, hope it's not massively popular.

When I was pg last time and checking out names I came across the list of names for that year- not just the top 100 but every single name used (and the amount of people with that name). Along with this I also found links for every year last century- which was great for ideas. BUT I can;t remember the link- anyone got any ideas??

It will be on the same table- all the names. My dd was due on 16th august so I would have had time to check, but she came last week, two weeks early!

What did u call her?

Totally outing myself....

Amber.

Pippa will be a big jumper, was in the hundreds in 2010.

I predict Isabelle and Poppy to be big, every other baby seems to be that, Ella or Grace. Boys it has to be Oliver. I also think Darcy will be big. Perhaps Zachary and Harry up a bit too.

I never have to worry about the statistics as DS's name is NEVER mentioned!

I'm telling you now, the most popular boys name for this year is Jacob!! Literally every other boy is called Jacob!

I'll have to wait til next year to see if I'm right!!

And I'm basing that on the fact I'm a midwife on a postnatal ward. I get to find out all the baby names

Oh, and Noah and Jude have seriously increased in popularity. Gutted as I picked Noah 7 years ago for my next child's name! However it's just exploded in popularity which has put me off :(

I know of 3 recently born Joshua's

Aww Amber's lovely. Got to say Jacob is popular. My cousins 8 week old is Jacob. And there's 2 at my baby yoga class

We called DD Nancy. Was gutted when a thread came up the other week of a mumsnetter wanting to call dd that but wasnt sure cos her mum hated it

I've had a few Nancy's lately... probably 4/5 this year.

I reckon Nancy, Amelia/Amelie/Emelia, Pippa, Ava and Grace will be up there for the girls and maybe Leo, Theo, Harry/Henry, Jacob and Oscar for the boys!