ONS 2019 baby names

[hauntedvagina]

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

Noah is top ten or higher in every region of England and Wales and no 2 in London. I suspect that it’s not a regional variation, but that the answer lies in @daisypond’s mention of the Noahs leaving university. I think it’s much more likely that Noah initially became popular with certain MC and UMC parents and that the popularity has trickled down and along to other social groups.

Yes I wonder if it’s a demographic thing, not just geographic.

@Babs709

Tristan - is he the guy in Stardust? he is... but that’s quite an old movie now?

Yeah bit it's an AMAZING movie and it's the only Tristan I know, other than the dude who hooked up with Isolde

It really is an amazing movie!! I love it. I knew a 40 year old Tristan once many moons ago. (He’d be about 40 now). For some reason he really didn’t suit the name, and I don’t think there’s many names I could say that about.

How did Noah become Gnaw? I suppose, like any dialect, it was passed on orally, not written down. So South became Sarf, Greenwich was Grinnidge, windows were win-ders etc etc. Thinking about it, it was probably closer to Nor - Nor'sark.

I always wonder where all the Oliver's live. I know one. He's 50. That's it.

If I were to have a girl now I would call her Jane. 26 babies called Jane in 2019!

126 named Dua after Dua Lipa. That wouldn't work in a broad black country accent I tell ya!

Interesting about the -a babies! When DD (late teens) was at preschool, the roll call went: Milly, Molly, Callie, Ellie, Holly, Ollie, Lily, Tully...
plus a few Sams, Charlottes etc whose parents obviously hadn’t got the memo.

@Thymeout

I'm older than most of you and I'm curious about why some 'new' names have become so popular.

Roman - the only Roman I've heard of is Roman Polanski. A brilliant film-maker but... some v unfortunate history. So why are there so many Romans? If it comes from E.European immigrants, it's become mainstream in a v short time.

Arlo - again, it means Woody Guthrie's son to me, but that's surely a bit niche for it to have become so popular.

Noah - I don't understand the love for this name at all, perhaps because I'm a SE Londoner by descent and we pronounced it Gnaw. (cf nugget for nougat and lickerish for liquorice. V. non-U.) We didn't know any Gnaws, just the one in the Bible who had an ark.

Tristan - it seems v popular on here. To me it's code (like Hooray Henry, or Tarquin) for various upper-class tribes. The HHs are loud and throw bread rolls. Tarquin is the pfb of a pretentious social climber and Tristans are Oxbridge culture snobs at the BBC or members of the Islington set - out of touch with the rest of the country. But when I posted on the thread, lots of people came up with council estate Tristans.

Can anyone explain the cultural references that I've missed which have changed the connotations of these names?

I think Roman might be popular because of Succession on Sky Atlantic although why you'd want to name your child after him is beyond me!