The best comprehensive guide to choose baby's name!!

[Ange77]

Hi all. I wanted to share with you all something I recently discovered on the Office for National Statistics website.
I'm due my third child in a couple of weeks time and when it comes to naming baby I wanted to make sure we didnt choose one of the most popular names to give our child.
The following link takes you to the ONS website where there are two excel spreadsheets which list all names given to baby boys & girls in 2013 (the 2014 version hasnt been released yet)
There's all sorts of information, but on the last couple of sheets it lists all the names given to every baby in England and Wales and how many children were named each name (as long as there was over three children named it)
Im rather geeky and I love a good spreadsheet - cant just be me though surley!
Apologies if this has been posted before but it might help a few of you make your final decisions, especially if you like me want to avoid overly popular names.

www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-318125

This website uses the ons names data from 1996 till now. So you can see a particular name's rank and how many babies were called that name in a given year, and see the trend of that name since.

names.darkgreener.com/#

I am obsessed with those lists too! Very useful and looking forward to the 2014 stats coming out! I think the dark greener tool has been created by someone at ONS so v useful too.

Yes there tends to be a fevered rush of excitement among name geeks when the ONS release their annual stats.

Think the 2014 data is released in July or August.. Too late for my may baby! Am very sad and looked this up the other day!

There's also an historical baby names spreadsheet on the ons website with top 100 names from 1900 to present. I loved that!