ONS 2019 names

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I just realised the data is out. Had a look for my dc names as you do. Bug surprise that both girl names have dropped out of the top 100. A bit disappointed as I thought they were more well liked.
Any surprises?

I am of an age where lots of people from school and Uni have been having babies over the last 10 years or so. Only one baby Oliver.

All the other Olivers I know are in their late 20s/early 30s. Same with Olivia - I know quite a few in their 20s and 30s but no children with the name.

The most common names I know lots of are Reuben, Henry/Harry, Thomas/Tommy, Archie, Joseph/Joe and Freddie.

Girls names seem to be a bit more adventurous, not had any repeat names. Some popular names - Isabella, Mia, Freya etc. but also some less common ones - Cecilia, Skylar, Dana etc.

Interesting reading. I then went on to look at other statistics such as age of mother. The number of teenage pregnancies as been declining year on year. The percentage of childless 45 year olds is 19%.Abortion rates have increased too which might account for the fact the average Number if children a woman had is 1.89. I assume this includes all women though.

Olivia has been No 1 or 2 for more than a decade. Can anyone remember why it shot to the top? Was there a popular character somewhere? Or heaps of Olivia Newton-John fans growing up and having DC?

why DO parents choose Oliver year on year when there will Be loads of other kids in his year with the same name?

Not Oliver, but I found that the names I had pegged for both boy and girl from a pretty young age, which were pretty uncommon then and that was part of the appeal, are now incredibly common and in the top 3. I wonder how many people continue to use the top names because it's the one they always wanted to use, anyway. I didn't because it took the shine off a bit that they were suddenly so common.

First time parents may not even realise how common the name is, you don't really notice it until you start hanging out with young kids and noticing that bloody everyone is called Noah, or whatever it might be.

I really can't figure out the appeal of Olivia, though. It sounds pretty but it was probably the most common name when I was at school, too, so it would be a bit like the most popular name in 2020 being Hannah or Sarah. I immediately think "boring" because there were about twenty in my school year.

I think both Olivia and Oliver are nice. When I was at school there wasn't a single one of them anywhere. The first one I met was a relatives baby called Oliver and I remember thinking what a beautiful name for a beautiful baby. The first association I had of Olivia was Newton -John. The Grease connotation will always be there for me. Again it's a positive assiciation.
Personally I find we are awash with Freddies, Frankies, Alfies, Archies and all the R names; Roman, Rowan, Reggie, Ronnie etc.
Disclaimer: I don't have an Oliver or an Olivia.

I also found this with Jack. It was the most popular name for ages, yet I hardly know any.

Nearly everyone I know has a Harry, Jack, Alex or Noah. Friends with older children have a Daniel, Thomas or Matthew.

Looked up and my daughters name seems to be very uncommon. Only 65 of them born in 2019.

Is it just me or was this a fairly boring set of statistics 🤣 Fairly predictable this year with no big surprises? Or am I missing things.

Anyone noticed any unexpected trends?

I see, as expected, that 2018s fastest rising names 'Grayson' and 'Roman' continue their steep rise, as I expected.

Names like Hunter, Arlo and Ezra (and many other names) seem to have peaked and numbers plateaued (boring!)

Anything interesting? Any name stormed up from nowhere to be top 100 etc?

I was wondering if there is away to see trends emerging further up the table. So names outside the first few hundred that are steadily rising. For example the names Maeve and Remi seem to have risen quite quickly over the past few years. That's what I find most interesting. At the other end of the table I have to say I am now very bored of the names Olivia and Oliver, hopefully they will start to decline in popularity. They've had their time!

My DS is actually on the list this year - three of them! And eight of the alternative spelling. Most years his name's not there at all.

why DO parents choose Oliver year on year when there will Be loads of other kids in his year with the same name?

Because they like the name.

The nicknames as a given name have really taken off in the boys' top 50!

None of my girls names are in there and that's how I like it! They all 3 have classic but uncommon names. None of them have ever been in school with someone with the same name (other than a teacher!)

Strangely there were 3 girls with DD's name the year she was born, but none since and none for quite a few years beforehand.

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Strangely there were 3 girls with DD's name the year she was born, but none since and none for quite a few years beforehand.

There may have been 1 or 2 during the surrounding years but they won’t be on the list if there’s less than 3.

Maccaroni ** I hadn't realised that, it makes more sense then.