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New ONS data reveals the most popular baby names in the UK



The Office for National Statistics has released its annual list of the most popular boys and girls names in England and Wales – and Oliver and Olivia continue to reign supreme.

Olivia has topped the list of the most popular baby names for girls for the third year in a row, while Oliver has been the most popular baby name for boys for the past six years in a row with 5,390 baby boys given the moniker in 2018.

Amelia, Ava, Isla and Emily completed the top five baby names for girls while George, Harry, Noah and Jack rounded up the top five baby names for boys.

Archie, the moniker of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s son born in May , moved up two places from 2017 to be listed as the sixteenth most popular boy’s name in 2018 – with 2,950 baby boys called Archie in 2018.

Top 100 baby names for girls in 2018

 


The number next to each name is the total live births registered during the calendar year and the number in brackets in the change in ranking since 2017.


1. Olivia 4,598 (0)


2. Amelia 3,941 (0)


3. Ava 3,110 (up 1)


4. Isla 3,046 (down 1)


5. Emily 2,676 (0)


6. Mia 2,490 (up 1)


7. Isabella 2,369 (down 1)


8. Sophia 2,344 (up 3)


9. Ella 2,326 (0)


10. Grace 2,301 (up 3)


11. Poppy 2,226 (down 3)


12. Charlotte 2,202 (0)


13. Lily 2,184 (down 3)


14. Ivy 2,104 (up 11)


15. Florence 2,062 (up 4)


16. Evie 2,052 (down 2)


17. Sophie 2,007 (down 1)


18. Freya 1,921 (up 2)


19. Evelyn 1,902 (up 3)


20. Willow 1,900 (up 6)


21. Phoebe 1,883 (0)


22. Elsie 1,875 (up 6)


23. Sienna 1,834 (0)


24. Alice 1,827 (down 7)


25. Jessica 1,812 (down 10)


26. Rosie 1,808 (up 9)


27. Harper 1,796 (up 7)


28. Daisy 1,769 (down 10)


29. Sofia 1,728 (up 2)


30. Isabelle 1,701 (down 6)


31. Matilda 1,618 (down 4)


32. Ruby 1,531 (down 3)


33. Eva 1,409 (0)


34. Emilia 1,398 (up 2)


35. Scarlett 1,393 (down 5)


36. Chloe 1,375 (down 4)


37. Maya 1,260 (up 3)


38. Esme 1,234 (up 4)


39. Eliza 1,220 (up 2)


40. Millie 1,196 (down 3)


41. Imogen 1,179 (down 2)


42. Aria 1,178 (up 5)


43. Luna 1,162 (up 5)


44. Layla 1,152 (down 6)


45. Harriet 1,128 (up 6)


46. Maisie 1,089 (0)


47. Elizabeth 1,076 (down 3)


48. Penelope 1,068 (up 7)


49. Mila 1,050 (up 25)


50. Erin 1,024 (down 5)


51. Eleanor 985 (up 3)


52. Lola 982 (down 9)


53. Violet 970 (up 9)


54. Bella 969 (up 5)


55. Rose 960 (up 5)


56. Emma 957 (down 4)


56. Holly 957 (0)


58. Molly 929 (0)


59. Thea 920 (down 6)


60. Ellie 919 (down 10)


61. Lucy 910 (down 12)


62. Hannah 849 (down 5)


63. Lottie 824 (up 6)


64. Nancy 819 (up 3)


65. Ada 811 (up 49)


66. Maria 799 (up 5)


67. Lilly 785 (down 3)


68. Zara 765 (up 2)


69. Aurora 752 (up 11)


70. Amber 751 (down 9)


71. Georgia 747 (down 8)


72. Robyn 742 (up 7)


73. Gracie 719 (up 4)


74. Summer 718 (up 12)


75 Jasmine 703 (down 10)


76. Annabelle 695 (down 8)


77. Abigail 690 (down 4)


78. Darcie 686 (down 12)


79. Hallie 680 (up 19)


80. Amelie 653 (down  8)


81. Bonnie 645 (up 14)


82. Iris 634 (down 1)


82. Maryam 634 (down 4)


84. Beatrice 629 (0)


85. Anna 628 (down 10)


86. Heidi 621 (down 2)


86. Orla 621 (up 2)


88. Arabella 619 (down 5)


89. Clara 609 (down 2)


90. Delilah 601 (up 38)


91. Edith 599 (up 1)


92. Aisha 568 (down 2)


93. Francesca 567 (down 4)


94. Martha 560 (down 18)


95. Ayla 556 (up 11)


96. Zoe 546 (up 9)


97. Lyla 539 (down 2)


98. Sara 535 (down 16)


99. Margot 534 (up 57)


100. Felicity 522 (up 2)

Arthur was the only major change in the top ten boy’s names this year, as it moved into seventh, pushing Jacob to eleventh. Poppy and Lily were replaced by Sophia and Grace in the girls’s top ten list at eighth and tenth place respectively.

While there were less babies called Olivia and Oliver than in previous years, this coincided with further ONS date stating that 2018 had the lowest birth rate in England and Wales for 80 years. There were just 657,076 live births in 2018, decreasing 3.2 per cent since 2017 and 9.9 per cent since 2012.

New entries to the ONS top 100 baby boy’s names were Grayson, Jasper, Rowan, Tobias, Sonny and Dominic while Ada, Delilah, Ayla, Zoe, Margot and Felicity were the new entrants to the top 100 baby girl’s names for 2018.

Top 100 baby names for boys in 2018

 


The number next to each name is the total live births registered during the calendar year and the number in brackets in the change in ranking since 2017.


1. Oliver 5,390 (0)


2. George 4,960 (up 1)


3. Harry 4,512 (down 1)


4. Noah 4,107 (0)


5. Jack 3,988 (0)


6. Leo 3,721 (up 1)


7. Arthur 3,644 (up 12)


8. Muhammad 3,507 (up 2)


9. Oscar 3,459 (down 1)


10. Charlie 3,365 (down 1)


11. Jacob 3,350 (down 5)


12. Thomas 3,243 (up 1)


13. Henry 3,172 (0)


14. William 3,015 (down 3)


15. Alfie 2,977 (down 3)


16. Archie 2,950 (up 2)


17. Joshua 2,922 (down 2)


18. Freddie 2,838 (down 2)


19. Theo 2,741 (up 2)


20. Isaac 2,578 (up 4)


21. James 2,536 (down 4)


22. Alexander 2,517 (0)


23. Logan 2,320 (down 3)


24. Edward 2,197 (down 1)


25. Ethan 2,106 (up 1)


26. Lucas 2,098 (down 1)


27. Joseph 1,989 (up 1)


28. Sebastian 1,964 (up 7)


29. Theodore 1,932 (up 9)


30. Finley 1,926 (up 1)


31. Max 1,867 (down 4)


32. Mohammed 1,846 (down 2)


33. Samuel 1,788 (down 4)


34. Harrison 1,765 (0)


35. Benjamin 1,743 (down 2)


36. Arlo 1,715 (up 6)


37. Daniel 1,676 (down 5)


38. Adam 1,672 (down 2)


39. Teddy 1,663 (0)


40. Mason 1,540 (down 3)


41. Elijah 1,519 (0)


42 Reuben 1,504 (up 7)


43 Dylan 1,465 (down 3)


44. Hunter 1,410 (up 34)


45. Reggie 1,356 (up 6)


46. Jaxon 1,346 (up 6)


47. Rory 1,323 (up 7)


48. Louie 1,319 (down 2)


49. David 1,307 (down 5)


50. Tommy 1,299 (up 11)


51. Luca 1,291 (up 4)


52. Albie 1,284 (up 5)


53. Hugo 1,279 (down 5)


54. Zachary 1,265 (down 9)


55. Albert 1,264 (up 4)


56. Jude 1,182 (down 6)


57. Toby 1,178 (down 10)


58. Riley 1,168 (down 15)


59. Ezra 1,118 (up 22)


60. Carter 1,030 (up 2)


61. Gabriel 1,022 (up 3)


62. Roman 1,018 (up 13)


63. Frankie 1,013 (down 3)


64. Harley 1,011 (down 11)


65. Frederick 1,010 (up 7)


66. Ronnie 989 (down 3)


67. Jake 988 (down 11)


68. Elliot 945 (up 1)


69. Louis 941 (up 13)


70. Jenson 912 (down 12)


71. Mohammad 880 (up 8)


72. Stanley 877 (down 2)


73. Bobby 872 (down 8)


74. Michael 869 (down 6)


75. Jesse 861 (up 15)


76. Finn 817 (up 20)


77. Jayden 792 (down 6)


78. Harvey 779 (down 12)


79. Caleb 776 (down 2)


80. Jackson 764 (down 6)


81. Charles 758 (down 8)


82. Matthew 757 (down 15)


83. Grayson 742 (up 26)


84. Blake 733 (0)


85. Liam 731 (up 6)


86. Elliott 728 (down 6)


87. Ellis 726 (up 2)


88. Ralph 719 (up 10)


89 .Jasper 708 (up 13) = Rowan 708 (up 14)


91. Alex 696 (up 1) = Ryan 696 (down 8)


93. Felix 689 (up 7)


94. Luke 677 (down 18)


95. Dexter 676 (down 9)


96. Ollie 659 (down 10)


97. Leon 655 (up 1)


98. Tobias 647 (up 6)


99. Sonny 640 (up 15)


100. Dominic 634 (up 15) = Kai 634 (down 7)

Nick Stripe, from the ONS, said: “Oliver and Olivia remained the most popular baby names in 2018, although there are the first signs that Oliver’s six-year reign as the number one name for boys is under threat.

“Arthur surged into the top 10 boys’ names for the first time since the 1920s, and Ada jumped into the girls’ top 100 for the first time in a century too, both perhaps inspired by characters in the BBC TV drama Peaky Blinders.

“On the flip side, the growth in the use of technology assistants in our homes may help to explain why the number of baby girls named Alexa has more than halved compared with 2017. Communicating with young children can be hard enough at the best of times.”



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