ONS Baby Names 2012?

[KosherBacon]

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.

you probably already found it, but it opens as a spreadsheet with several tables. Look at the tabs at the bottom of the screen and scroll along to Table 6 and click.

"Ava's not really like Eva though is it?"

It is, yes, because Eva is pronounced Ava (as in Ava Gardner) in many languages.

Unless you're pronouncing Ava like Ah-va .... But they are all variants of Eve.

iclaudius and quesedilla, there are excel spreadsheets on the ONS website including all names down to 3 entries. here

Considering my one of dcs names appear in the number 1 spit on Horrys list, its amazing we have never met one in RL.

And there are people on here with a lot less popular names who do know another one.

I think the lists mean little and its more to do with region.

Round here you are more likely to get a made up spelling than a classic name

I'm mildly amused there are 3 baby girls called You.

WithASpider - apology accepted I think I am just paranoid and over- sensitive about people thinking I can't spell! ( and there seem to be relatively few name geeks around who want to listen to the convoluted reasons a child has a now v popular name apparently spelled wrongly - whereas I always find it fascinating what and why people name their children! )

Ds has a classic Old Testament name that was around 60 when he was born and about 40 now, but was in the local top 20 because it's apparently a very trendy name for Somalis - both boys I've met with his name have been Somali, but I don't know any others under age 20.

Dd's name is around 250, and I suspect she will spend much of her life telling people her name is -a, not the much more common -ie name!

my DD is about 1800th only 16 with her name though common spelling and I think a normal name but not popular now

I am frankly astounded that DD1's name is as high as it is (within top 10 in Horry's list). We've never met another one outside of our cultural group (where it's very common), and our cultural group is not a particularly large one in the UK.

OTOH I expected DD2's name to be way higher on the list; though to be fair, I've met more boys with the male version that girls with the female version.

That's interesting Annie. Looking at Horry's list, I know at least a couple of all those top 10 names and wouldn't think of any of them as only common within a cultural group. I guess it depends a lot on where you live

I always find these lists really interesting! Some names are a lot more popular than I imagined, and some a lot less.

My name is on the complete list (though very far down), which disappoints me; not because I wish to be unique, but rather because I was hoping there weren't any children being inflicted with it.

My brother's name is outwith the top 500, my dad's name doesn't feature at all.

Whereas Riley is very high and I don't think I've ever met one. I wish the full breakdown were available by region (rather than just regional top tens).

Where do you see the regional breakdown?

Ah found it!

Can you link 5mad things?

It's one of the tabs on the spreadsheets.

Santa is a perfectly legitimate girls name. It is popular in many cultures, lithuanian for example, and there is also the author (and wife of Simon) Santa Sebag montefiore.

DS's name is in the mid 600s, but that makes it much more popular than either of the girls.

DD2 is actually one of the so-rare-we're-not-listing-it for the year she was born which surprises me because there is a famous actress with the same name, we wanted a name that reflected my heritage but that wouldn't be completely foreign to English people, but most people look rather confused and I have to explain where it comes from. They still look confused. I say 'You know, like world famous actress X'. 'Oh' they say. Poor DD2.

DD1 only has a few other girls (single figures) with her name for the year she was born but we tend to get overwhelmingly positive reactions to it, it has a pretty sound to it and apparently she has been told by older girls at school that it's a cool name. I look forward to it become more popular round here in 30 years.

Then we go home and all three names are common as muck!

AmandaP - on slightly more reflection, I do know that DDs name (Maya) is a popular name in other cultures (all completely randomly, I think), though since I live in very non-multicultural Suburbia, I guess we don't meet all those Mayas. I know that it's a "mainstream" name too, but I wouldn't have thought it enough of one to be number 6.

Ooh, see I knew three of those (all spelled differently) the same age as DD1 (so would be 4 now) and two Mia's Annie. It was certainly very popular in my little corner of London. Along with Isla it seemed to be one of the big 'up and coming' names at that point.

It's lovely

Horry - did you add Mia to the Maia/Maja/Maya list? Cos I can't see it and it has 3,524 "votes" all on its own.

If Mia is included in there that would make sense. They're everywhere around here too. But I'm not sure if it has the same origins as Maya/Maia. A quick Google agrees.

Yes I think so - may not have copied into the text box properly, sorry.

Never mind, Horry, it's an awesome compilation list!!

It was for my own nosiness benefit but since people had started talking about combining spellings I thought it might be of interest.

When you consider the actual popularity of a name you don't split out Lilly from Lily or Lillie, or for that matter from Lily-Rose or Lily-May. And if you're considering Daniel you don't forget to think about Danny. Names are mostly used out loud where the spelling doesn't show.

The homophones are easiest to combine (Lily/Lilly, or Mollie/Molly) even though I know when I'm considering names I have a different reaction to Catherine/Kathryn or Annabel/Annabelle.

Last year I combined eg Elizabeth with Beth, Betsy and Lizzy, because for me they're all the same name. But I chilled out a bit more this year which probably saved an hour or two and tried to stick with the obviously-the-same names.

Except that we already have disagreement about combining Ava/Eva/Evelyn.