Top 100 names for 2005 in the UK

[smasharash.livejournal.com]

I found the top 100 boy and girls names for 2005 for the UK:
girls -
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/specials/babiesnames_girls.asp

boys-
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/specials/babiesnames_boys.asp

I think that any name in the top thirty that I liked, I would reconsider for a slightly less popular name. Classes in Primary school (4-11years) tend to have around thirty children in. A lot more of my boys names are in the top 100, and seven of then are in the top thirty - including my two current favourites, Max and Dylan. Only four of my girls names are in the top thirty, and none of them are my current favourites.

But it doesn't really matter because I won't be having children for about ten years, by which time the top 100 will probably be mostly changed!

Names on my list in the top 100 (and the number they are ranked):
Joshua (2)
Oliver (5)
Ethan (17)
Alexander (20)
Jacob (21)
Dylan (24)
Max (29)
Nathan (35)
Owen (36)
Isaac (53)
Elliott (82)

Amelia (14)
Lily (16) /Lilly (74)
Holly (23) /Hollie (91)
Caitlin (27)
Jasmine (41)
Lydia (81)
Skye (90) - this one REALLY suprised me!

Comments

[seren.livejournal.com]

I'm British too :) I don't think popularity would put me off a name though (well I have to say that, since I named my daughter Lucy in 2004 and it was 6th most popular then! Although when I decided that I loved the name Lucy at around the age of 11 it was nowhere near as common).
Some of those names have really surprised me.. there seem to be an awful lot of kids called Alfie, Charlie, George etc.. names that I would associate with the older generation. I knew they were coming back into fashion but I didn't expect to see them so high in the chart!
I didn't think Skye would be in the top 100 either.