Most popular nursery names

[mum1345]

Following on from another thread of popular baby names in classes..
As it's taking ages for the 2022 data of baby names to be released I am curious what is most common name in nursery's at the moment?

Between my youngest's nursery and toddler groups we go to we know multiple under 4s called Isla, Luna, Harper, Mila, Aria, Penelope, Aliyah, Freddie, Teddy and Archie.

Oliver
jack
george
alfie

lily
ivy
evie
isabella
amelia

Loads of Teds, Teddys and Theos at our nursery.

Do you know when the 2022 data is due out? It’s normally September/October isn’t it? I can’t even see a release date

Arthur
Freddie
Leo
Max

Lily
Margot
Matilda
Sophie/a

The only multiples in nursery room/toddler group are Leo, Remy, Jacob and Freddie (2 of each).

There are 3 Oscars in preschool. It's the only name that appears more than once.

Can't move for Theos.

Leo, Theo, Oliver, Amelia, Ava

Esme
Finn
Hunter
Isla
Sophia

Where we live the repeats are Emerson, Remy, Charlie, Sophia, Gabriel.

At nursery
Luca
Oscar
Noah
Freya
Ava

At our Waterbabies class it’s all boys with A names
Arthur
Archie
Alfie
Albie
and I have an Auguste

No, they're ridiculously overdue as the 2021 list still says next data due August/September (provisional) and a confirmed date is still not appearing on the release calendar. This usually happens at least a few weeks before release, so I'm guessing end of November at the earliest now.

So frustrating. They use to release it at the end of the year (including babies born and registered up to mid-December, with the rest rolling into the next year's data). I do think it's better to include all babies born that calendar year, for accuracy, but why does it take so long now? Surely it could be ready by late Feb-March at the latest? It was bad enough when we had to wait until August (since about 2008ish), then it was September, then October).

The data is already quite out of date now by the time it's released! I think it's because they try to analyse so much now. Whilst the extra tables with breakdowns of regions, months born, age of mother etc are interesting, all people initially want is the actual positions of each name. The extra analysis could be released later in the year. I don't understand why they hold the whole thing back until everything has been analysed to death.

Kids are 5 and 3, we know multiples of:

Sophie
Charlotte
Daisy
Connie
Cora
Orla

Charlie
Ryan (male and female)
Finley/Finlay
Caleb

Two or more

Boys:
Arthur
Theo (Teddy/Theodore)
Finley
Carter

Girls:
Ivy

Our nursery has lots of the following names- Ava, Theo, Wilf, Luna, Oscar, Isla and Isabella

Ditto to the above who mentioned Isla, Luna and Ivy. Boys popular names haven’t changed too much from recent years, Teddy’s and August’s appear everywhere now.

In our nursery the post popular names are

Girls:

Ada
Ava
Alicia
Ella
Elsie
Juahara
Juno
Luna
Mila
Orla
Teddy/Thea/Theodora

Boys:

Arlo
Atticus
Benedict
Edward /Ted/Bear
Hamilton
Hamish
kayden
Jayden
Jacob
Khalid/Kal
Mohammed
Theo/Teddy
Xavier

There are more than one of each of the above names across the whole nursery

My son's nursery group have several of the following in the 1-3 age range: Luca, Leo, Ivy, Isaac, Eve/Evelyn/Evie, Freddie, Jackson, Otis and Frankie (Francesca).

Outside of nursery, I know four Arthurs and three Albies. And quite a few Olivers and Olivias.

Lovely to hear of all the little Arthurs. It was my DF's name

There seems to be a few Aria’s and other short names ending in ‘a’ for girls. Names like Ottilie, Ophelia & Wilfred seem to be on the up.

@BoleynMemories13 has anyone tried emailing ONS team to find out a potential release date? There's contact details on the previous release so I was wondering if to just ask for an update? It's never been this late for years so something must be going on I'd have thought @mum1345

I think 2021 data was released in 2022, so I think stats for 2022 will be released next year. I agree... it's too outdated even when it used to release at August next year.

I agree we don't need to know popular names based on mothers age. I also found table too irrelevant, since I never seen number how many mothers under 25 years there is - sure in this day and age that number is smaller and smaller? Do we really need to know younger mothers prefer nicknames over full names?

Three Mabels in my setting.

Mia, Luke/Luca, Willow and Olivia are common