ONS Baby Names 2012?

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Anybody know when they are going to publish the data on baby names for 2012? I remember they'd published it by this time last year.

76 Issac's. Is that a genuine variant, or a spelling mistake?

I think they should also show the names with different spellings. Eg there are loads of ways to spell Zac, Zak etc and added up they would make the top 100.Also names like Lexi/lexie. babycentre used to count these this way but not sure if that was reliable and UK wide or just their members/posters. Was interesting though.

Yay only 33 boys with same name as my DS!! DD's name creeping up the list though although not top 100 yet..

Fascinating reading as some names not as popular as I thought they were!

I think the issue that they would have is that different people have different views on what constitutes the same name. For example, lots of people would say Harry and Henry ought to be together, but are they really still the same name?

Or taking a name like Sophie, there are variants like Sofya which (I think is the Russian). It derives from the same name, but is both spelled and pronounced differently.

I think lumping variants together could start more debates than it resolved!

I think names with the same sounds should be lumped together like the aforementioned Molly/Mollie or Lily/Lilly/Lillie or Zac/Zach/Zak.

Harry and Henry, Sophie and Sophia are different names.

Arf at Kitten feeling soiled!

Got to feel sorry for the three Berks. And look at all those Alan/Allans! Who'd have thought it?

Only 16 other little boys sharing ds's name in his birth year. Happy with that. Dd's name still hovering around the 500th mark despite MN predicting it would 'do a Ruby' three years ago when I chose it. Phew.

Berk? Berk?

Horrible comments on the DM site actually.

I feel for the 160 or so Dennis/Denis boys. Is there perhaps a cultural group within the UK I'm not aware of where that's still quite a popular choice?

I expect the Alans and Dennises are being named after their granddads. Expect more of these 50s/60s names to start climbing the charts.

Not sure this is going to make sense without the actual names, but I'll try.

DDs name as spelled has one pronunciation. But that pronunciation has another spelling, which has an alternative pronunciation, which then has more alternative spellings. So how would you group them, if you were going to try?

Its not that Theophile is awful as a name, it just thinkthat the potential for bullying in quite high.

I have to disagree with meditrina's earlier comment about Sophia/Sofia and Sophie. IMO, Sophia/Sofia and Sophie are totally different names. It's like saying that Juliet or Julia is the same as Julie.

Dennis is popular in Eastern Europe I think? (Albania etc)

Whiter you're assuming that they'll be going to school in the UK (which may not be the case) and using the full name. I'd bet that they'll all be known simply as Theo, wherever they live.

The alternative spelling of my dd's name is now twice as popular than the spelling we used - this is quite annoying as everyone gets the spelling wrong and I'm sure my way is the right way - the statistics disagree with me though!

It's weird because DS's name is between 100-110 and I've never met another one in playgroups/ pre-school etc, yet DD's name is 350ish and I know of more of those. I guess the variations by area must be massive

Funny that more kids are called Caleb than John now.

Sophie and Sophia are completely different.

I don't see Sophie/ Sophia as very different at all. You've changed one letter.

Isabella/ Isabel are pretty much the same name too

It really pains me to think my dd and dils will be calling their dds Barbara and Janet . But yes, I'll be told that I had my chance...

Sophie is pronounced So-fee

Sophie can be pronounced So-fee-a or Sofe-eye-a

5 baby boys called Boden

DD2 is 1471.

That's catchy Hawkmoth

Oooh HAWK my DD is 1471 too!