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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

I would imagine that the name 'Favour' is an African name, as names such as 'Blessing', 'Endurance' and those sort of descriptive names are popular.

Agree with you aufaniae about the name Mohammed and its variations, although I am sure the Daily Mail will have something to say about it.

Dont really get the obsession with having a name outside the top 100 or whatever and being horrified that your child wasnt the only one born with the oh so unique name you had chosen for them. Ok, so I understand why you perhaps wouldnt go for Harry/Oliver or Lily/Amelia/Isabella (aaarrgghh!), but in the grand scheme of things a top 100 name really doesnt matter!

Mohammad is name given to most muslim boys as a first name. Almost all go by their middle names.

I just added up all the variations of Isobel and there were 2,000 more than the first place. Would be interesting if they grouped names up like that, even as a seperate list.

I have done this myself in the past (it takes days and days, so don't hold your breath) and it does make a very different list, yes.

It does depend on a person's interpretation of what constitutes the "same name" though. For example, are Isobel and Isabella the same, or only Isobel and Isabelle? What about Harry and Henry?

My dds names are both in the top 10,but we have never come across another child with the same name.But then again,we don't live in London.

Its so annoying, about 10 years ago I turned to DH and asked him if he liked the name Amelia. It just popped into my head one day, we always said if we had a DD we would use that name as we loved it so much.

Yes, she has now contributed to making it number one, being born last year.

Our DS's name was also the only boys name we could agree on. We loved it and gave it to DS 4 years ago without realising how popular it was. It has been in the top 10 for quite a while now. I do hear a lot of them but I haven't heard of many Amelias now.

There were 8 girls called "Baby"!

Choosing names is hard - I'm surprised there weren't more who were still known as "Baby" by the time it came to registration day!

Oh dear, three girls named 'Maxie'. What if they are a bit chunky? That's going to be awful.

Isn't baby typically ones that were stillborn? Maybe just a myth.

What happened to Mohammed/Muhammed etc, I read that was the most popular name for a baby boy in England over the last few years.

I think it is but you need to add up all the variations. I think in dd2s primary school there are over 20 Mohammeds in it's various forms.

There were 57 babies given DS1's name in 2011 - the year he was born there were 0 (he was born and registered overseas so he doesn't show up either :o ) I am actually sort of glad there are some others now :) His name is a proper name too, not at all unique :o

DS2 who was actually born in 2011 has a bottom of the top 30 name, but that's OK with me and anyway in the country we actually live in its very unusual (too English).

DD's name was unusual in the UK, where she was born, but the number 1 name for her year of birth, and top 5 in following years, where we now live - there are 3 of them roughly her age on our road, and 2 in her class of 25 kids - even in the UK it's not only regional but in small areas you seem to find "pockets" of a name even though the parents don't know each other, very funny! :)

Those of you desperate to avoid picking a very popular/trendy name for your child, be warned: one of my children's names is now in the top three but was not particularly popular when I chose it. In fact there were hardly any and the reaction I got from people when I said I liked the name was 'why do you want to use an old person's name?'

Of my four children, two have names in the top 30 and the other two's names don't feature in the top 100 at all although they aren't unusual names.

Im surprised how few Arya/Aria''s there were. I honeslty thought it was more popular

I imagine the 33 Favours are of African heritage, it's very normal for some cultures to use abstract nouns as names (well it is in British culture too actually - Grace, Faith, Hope)

One of the relay teams the other night (from Nigeria I think) had a Blessing and an Endurance - I couldn't believe they didn't win with those names!

I'm surprised how many girls were called Neveah. I thought it was a joke - "heaven backwards", or am I being ignorant and it is a real name as well?

RuthlessBaggage, I'm glad I'm not the only one who's sad enough to think about these things

I think there's a good chance Baby is stillborn babies, possibly ones who didn't have anyone to register them. It's just occured to me that there are three sexes that can be registered - male, female and indetermined. I is given for babies born too early to be able to tell from looking. My baby was registered at the hospital as I but the staff thought she was a girl, as did we and the registrar was happy to register her officially as a girl. Not sure what list those names go onto.

I do like looking at these lists, my baby making days are over but it's still fun. Why do some people find it awful to hear of others using the same name as their dc's? Just interested as I probably would take it as a compliment.

I never did care where my dc's names where in the list. DS1 is 11 and it was only after I had him and joined a baby Internet forum that I found out his name (Joseph) was top 10 at the time. Yet in the whole 11 years of being at nursery and primary school he's never come across another Joe/Joseph, I've checked the list of boys in his form for senior school and again, not another Joe - so for me, being top 10 at the time of his birth really hasn't meant anything. All 4 of mine were in the top 100 in the year leading up to their birth and 3 still remain in the top 100 but all have slipped places, the other one has gone out of the top 100 (can't see where it is placed as I'm unable to download the doc).

thanks ruby dd was born dec 2010 and there were less than 30 that year, so it has gone up, but not by much! how do i find out where that is in the list ie top 300? names?

If you do a search so control F, it will give the number. Think it's really far down.

That's sad about Baby, I didn't know that.

thanks will have to work out how to download it, my pc doesnt seem to want to do it! i like that its a bit unusual so i am pleased it hasnt got really popular!

How do you get the full list on an iPhone ?

I see Ethel still isnt popular despite Lilly Allen having chosen it as her daughters name.

I know one of the 38 Favours. I feel quite special! A friend of mine who is African had a gorgeous baby Favour end of last year. My DD loves her and calls her 'baby Flavour'!