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

[thorabrighid.livejournal.com]

I love how the uk list is a lot different than the american list. Like Poppy? Poppy would never be on the american list. And Callum! ahah.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Thanks, seeing the Brit lists are always fun. Funny that Jessica is so high there now, it's kind of a passe 80s name over here. Ruby, Daisy, Freya, Naimh... some stuff we barely see at all. I see that Madison is popular even over there. And Maddison (ugh).

Aidan is low on their list. Oliver is very high though, I think that name is going to follow suit and get a lot more popular in the U.S.

[smasharash.livejournal.com]

I was also very suprised to see Madison. Certain names (mostly the boys names) have been in the top few for years, and I expect they will stay there for a long time too. Such as Thomas, Joshua etc.

[colin-chaotic.livejournal.com]

It's interesting to compare those to the US's top 100 from last year (http://behindthename.com/top/lists/100us2004.php) (2005's not up yet, as far as I know). My favorite names, with the British ranking first and the US second.

Emily (2/1)
Grace (7/13)
Abigail (19)
Emma (22/2)
Holly (23/-)
Elizabeth (42/10)
Shannon (59/-)

James (4/17)
William (8/8)
Alexander (20/15)
Jacob (21/1)
Robert (69/36)
Logan (75/27)
Dominic (87/91)

Holly and Shannon aren't even on the US's list, and William's the same ranking on both. That's funny.

[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.

[smasharash.livejournal.com]

I was also suprised to see Logan on the british list. It's funny that Emily is so popular in both the US and the UK, Emily was #1 in 2004 too.

[shona.livejournal.com]

Skye is one of my favourite names place i love the Island (off the coast scotland)

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Oh you are joking.. Amelia is 14? fuckkkk. Seriously.. when i started having to think of baby names i had no idea it was popular at all.. let's hope it drops for 2006 & she wont be one of many!