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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

For anyone struggling to find the correct link, it's here:
www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-266770

oops, forget to convert link automatically...
here it is
www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-266770

I also live on a desert island. The only Amelia I know is in her late thirties and I have never met anyone called Jack.

I have never met anyone called Amelia or Jack either. Amelia makes me think of Enid Blyton books, it's really odd to think of people choosing it for their baby girls now. Names do seem to go in cycles though, so maybe some 'old-fashioned' names are coming back.

Interesting that my name is down in the 90s, it was top-3 for years around the 70s/80s!

dd1's middle name is Amelia.

My 3 week old granddaughter is called Amelia, the first I have ever heard of so I too am surprised it's that popular. Glad to see the back of Evie, Lily and Olivia though I have to say! (sorry!)

There was not a single child given my name last year. But then I have a very unusual spelling of a name that appears at 692.

No children where give DS1s name either though 602 had a longer version of it.

DS2's name is in the top 100 but I love it and it suits him so perfectly

1295th for DD. I'm actually hugely intrigued by how more popular some of the odder variations of her name are than her name.

I deliberately gave my children names that weren't too unusual (though according to these stats they are becoming more so) because of the pain of always being the only one with my name throughout my whole youth. I desperately wanted to be a Karen or a Claire or a Nicki!

"I have never met anyone called Amelia or Jack either"

Really? You probably don't spend much time with kids then....?!

How can someone never have met any Jacks? Not even as waiters, or out and about? I know quite a few, growing up loads of boys at my school were called Jack. It's really the only other boys name I like apart from the one I used.

I don't exactly know any Amelia's but I've met a few and heard it called at children in shops etc. I spend no time with children other than family if that's relevant.

I honestly can't remember ever meeting anyone called Jack. Don't remember any at school, or university, or among work colleagues or anything. No relatives either. Only one dog.

No I don't spend any time with kids (other than family). Not doubting it's a popular name for young boys now - the statistics speak for themselves!

I know several Jacks but none that are older than about twenty. Though apparently my grandad John was called Jack at work to distinguish him from all the other Johns. I think Jack originated as a variation of John.

Three baby Tequilas.

Ruby I am a bit surprised myself that I haven't met any Jacks. Of course, a waiter might have been called Jack and not told me his name or I might have had a drunken snog once with a bloke whose name I forgot to ask and he might have been Jack.

I have three little children, spend alot of time at toddler classes, have lots of friends with children, but still don't know of any, even in DS's school.

Either I am a statistical anomoly, or I live unknowingly in a Jack-free enclave, or I will meet at least 10 people called Jack tomorrow to redress the balance!!

(and it is a name I really like, too)

I love the ones with extra punctuation:

Lily- and Demi- (separate to Lily and Demi)

But my ultimate favourite it MD. Yes - including the "."

Also - we live in a Jack-free zone too. I've never met one around here at all (though I do know 3 Jacksons ). If dc3 had been a boy I was v keen on Jack as it would almost certainly be the only one in its school year. Though of course in the wider world I suppose there will be lots at work etc.

Are there any girls named Agatha?

Here are the ones for America. :)

Three Tia-Marie's and three Tequila's. I can't be the only one who noticed that surely? [shocked]

I like this list, there were only 22 girls with my name and spelling born last year :D

My computer is playing up and keeps freezing when I try to download lists.

Can someone please look and tell me where my twins names are please (Quentin and Christina). Id like to know as they were born last year.

I think DD1s name is the most popular out of my other DCs its always in the top 50. But it is less common in NZ where she was born. I think DD2s may be in top 100 but the others are outside (unless they've had a massive leap in last year).

Fascinated by the twins page on the american one - Landon/London. Tyler/Taylor, Jada/Jaden....

But it's totally different overseas though mybootsaremuddy. Are you a kiwi? I always snigger when I see Milo and Kai. They are just very unfortunate names.

Yes oneLittleToddlingTerror I am a kiwi but live in UK. DC 1and 2 were born in NZ but the other here in UK.

thegreylady - I know a little Agatha.