ONS 2019 baby names

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Does anyone know if this if still due to be released in August or has it been delayed?

I've loved mooching through this today, find the name by mother's age breakdown particularly fascinating.

I spent far too long looking at it today! The baby Sharons were my favourite.

How do you search your child's name if not in top 100?

@Adelais where can you find this info for names not in top 100? Thanks

Scroll across to table 6 for all names

You will need to download the spreadsheet with the full dataset, or use names.darkgreener.com once it is updated with the 2019 data.

So addictive looking through them! @Natt99 I'm surprised at Dua 😂😂

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsgirls
This is the link for the girls names, just select the file for 2019 and then click on table 6

Link for the boys
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsboys

Thank you

I also found the breakdown by age really interesting, for example Harper is really popular among under 25s and Charlotte with the over 35s although I was surprised that Sienna was more popular with older mothers than younger ones.

Does anyone know why Freya has suddenly made it into the top 10? It's been hovering between 18 and 21 since 2009 and now has climbed 8 places.

Not suprised Arthur is so high, I hear it everywhere.
Oh yeah I remember reading that based on the 2018 and previous data that Arthur’s fast rise put it on track to be a future number 1.
Looks like it’s still going strong based on 2019... I wonder if in 2021 or 2022 it will knock Oliver off the top spot? Kind of hope so.

I’m surprised at Dua too! But I know it means “love” in Albanian, so I can imagine fans of Dua Lipa knowing that and thinking it’s romantic. Reminds me of how popular Seren is, because it means “star” in Welsh.

I see my daughter’s name has entered the top 50. Over 1000 babies! I remember when it was so rare, there were less than 50 babies per year given that name. My girl is about to turn nine so it’s amazing how trends change. Fuming

@WinterHoliday

I also found the breakdown by age really interesting, for example Harper is really popular among under 25s and Charlotte with the over 35s although I was surprised that Sienna was more popular with older mothers than younger ones.

Does anyone know why Freya has suddenly made it into the top 10? It's been hovering between 18 and 21 since 2009 and now has climbed 8 places.

I find this fascinating too, take Archie, top three for under 25's but plummeted about 10 places in the over 35's.

It's so interesting how everyone starts liking previously rare names at the same time! Why is that?

Because everyone else is also looking for interesting underused names and avoiding the fashionable/overused ones.

The problem arises if everyone goes for the same ones!

Snowball effect, I guess @evenprimrose

People meet baby with an uncommon name, they copy it (or tell their friends, who copy it). It happens again and again. Name slowly goes from outside the top 500 to inside the top 50.

I suppose it’s trend-led as well. Take “old lady” names. Florence, Edie, Elsie and Mabel are hugely popular. People who like those kinds of names start looking for more obscure old lady names, which means they start climbing up the charts too.

It’s funny, because I just can’t see the next generation of old lady/man names having the same kind of renaissance. But I’m sure they will. Will our children name their babies Roger, Alan and Ian, or Sandra, Susan and Debbie?

DS DD2 and 3 names have all kept out of the top 100 list. DD2 has risen to 189 ds and dd2 are in the thousands. Only 7 named DD2s name (the highest I can remember) 23 for DS. DD1 has steadily risen since we named her 22 years ago and is now 22nd. I would prefer for them to have known but not commonly known names but with DD1 Friends put a stop to that. Still, I love her name so :)

I had fun looking up my Danish cousin's children's names as they are in the top 100 in Denmark but barely feature here.

I do love this report every year it fascinates me and really brings out the geek in me :) (I say that proudly)

Why are unique names so fashionable? As in, why do so many people want names that no one else has. When I was at school everyone was called Sarah and Emma. I have one of those types of names and I didn’t care there were four others. We had a “Rhia” and people struggled with her name. That was seen as exotic! I’m not judging, it genuinely confuses me. Curious to know what the psychology of it is. My DS name isn’t in the top 100 but it’s a common name generally across generations (think: “Peter” esque).

dd3 has risen to 189 sorry

@DoTheMaccaroni

In 2017 & 18 there were 5 and then 4 girls with my daughters name but there year there must be 2 or less cause it’s not on the list! (it’s not a yoonique name, just very rare!)

How did you find this out?

@Babs709

I myself (a 70's baby) have a name that's unusual and frankly it was unique I have yet to meet another person with my name. No one struggled with it . I liked not being Sarah B or Sarah P and I wanted that for my children, Dh and I picked what I would call unusual but not weird names. People know my children's names but they are often names they do not know others called.

When ds started primary school (we had just moved county) one of the dads was named his name Conrad he said that at age 36 this was the first time he had met another Conrad. yet everyone knows the name.

For me that is the sort of names I like.

When I was at school everyone was called Sarah and Emma. I have one of those types of names and I didn’t care there were four others

Many will disagree and would prefer to have a more memorable name! I know so many adult Steves, Andys and Sarahs...!

Names have a purpose- to identify us

Why are unique names so fashionable? As in, why do so many people want names that no one else has.

I think there are a few factors which have led to much greater diversity of names this century. People travel more and society is more multicultural in general. I also wonder if some parents who were themselves one of many Sarahs / Helens / Johns growing up may have disliked this and wanted a more unusual name for their own child. That would be a fascinating analysis - to take the people with the top ten names of the 70s and 80s and to see what they have named their own children.

My daughters name has just moved into the Top 100. I kind of liked that it hovered for years just outside it.