Name Nerds: Assemble! ONS Baby Names 2016 predictions

[ZoyaTheDestroyer]

Although I can't find an exact publication date, the ONS name data for 2016 is due to be published soon.

Chime in here with your predictions for the climbers and those that will fall.

Eva, Evie, Thea

Risers will be:

Isabella
Iris

Theo
Thor (I keep meeting nordic inspired ones. Odin too.)

Is anyone else surprised Jack is so high up the list still? Whenever I hear the name it's always directed at an older child, maybe 5 or 6. Not sure the last time I met a baby Jack.

Had anyone else met a lot of babies named Max recently? I love it and it was on my list for ds, but since he was born in December I have met five different babies called Max!

howthelightgetsin completely agree I don't actually know one under 8, I also don't know ANY baby Oliver's, the youngest one I know is well into his teens.

And the list is out!

www.ons.gov.uk/releases/babynamesinenglandandwales2016

Albie, Arlo, Ezra, Finn, Jasper and Jesse entered the top 100 for boys, replacing Callum, Connor, Jamie, Kian, Seth and Sonny.

Felicity, Iris, Luna and Lydia replaced Bethany, Hollie, Katie and Lacey in the girls' top 100.

I guessed Aria on the other thread. I think it could have actually been the highest riser in the top 100 for girls.

Interesting - I didn't know Luna was so popular. Well done to the Iris spotters!

Girls top 10:

1. Olivia
2. Amelia (these two have switched places)
3. Emily
4. Isla
5. Ava
6. Isabella
7. Lily
8. Jessica
9. Ella

10. Mia

Boys

1. Oliver
2. Harry
3. George
4. Jack (out of the top three for I think the first time in 20+ years?!)
5. Jacob
6. Noah
7. Charlie
8. Muhammad
9. Thomas

10. Oscar

Perversely pleased to see that DD's name has dropped eight places having been quite a big climber in previous years!

Wow, Elsie and Ivy at 31 and 33. I knew they would be shooting up the charts, but I didn't think they'd be that high.

Has Violet gone down a bit?

(I have a thing for old lady names, as you can probably tell )

Elsie up 2
Ivy up 9
Violet up 3

Oh, not as much as I was expecting actually. I know Ivy has increased massively over the past three years or so.

Quite chuffed that all 6 of mine are still outside the top 100.

howthelightgetsin you were right, with all the Theos, Theodores and Teddys together they would be more like number 4 or 5!

Ours continues to decline in popularity and had slid into the mid 600s now. Quite pleased really, as we were both 80's kids with at least four other kids with the same name in our classes all the way through school (and were therefore given 'fun' descriptive names).

Am I the only horrible judgey pants who reads the full list and internally berates those who seem to think that spelling Thea with an 'i' (or similar) makes it more unique?!

Has it been released yet?

Sorry, ignore me!

Ooo the ones on my list there were only 9 of my boys name and 0 of my girls name, hurrah!

Arlo went from 102 to 49 - WOW. I knew it was super popular this year but that is a huge jump.

No surprise to see Ezra breaking into the top 100 either.

Damn it, Isaac (my preferred name if if I have a boy) appears to have gone up. 😔

Actually Isaac was 20th last year and this year. But went from 2829 to 2662 babies, so slightly less popular this year.

Cheers Diego! I still can't get the ONS list to work, I've just gone from the mumsnet article so I hadn't seen what the movements were, and thought from recollection it was mid 20s last year! Cheers.

My other fave boy names are all pretty high too...my favourite girl names are all either v high (Evie/Eva for e.g.), or not in there at all (Larisa!)

Ronnie and Reggie in the top 100! I have never met a baby with either of these names.

Iris has jumped quite a bit. I think that was mentioned.