How popular is the baby name Jacob in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, check out all the blog posts that mention the name Jacob.
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According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the most popular baby names in England and Wales last year were, yet again, Olivia and Oliver.
Here are the top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2019:
Girl Names
Olivia, 4,082 baby girls
Amelia, 3,712
Isla, 2,981
Ava, 2,946
Mia, 2,500
Isabella, 2,398
Sophia, 2,332
Grace, 2,330
Lily, 2,285
Freya, 2,264
Boy Names
Oliver, 4,932 baby boys
George, 4,575
Noah, 4,265
Arthur, 4,211
Harry, 3,823
Leo, 3,637
Muhammad, 3,604
Jack, 3,381
Charlie, 3,355
Oscar, 3,334
In the girls’ top 10, Lily and Freya replace Emily and Ella. The boys’ top ten includes the same ten names as in 2018.
In the girls’ top 100, Lara and Mabel replace Aisha and Francesca. In the boys’ top 100, Alfred, Chester, Hudson, Ibrahim and Oakley replace Alex, Dexter, Dominic, Kai, Sonny and Tobias.
The fastest risers within the top 100 were Hallie (on the girls’ list) and Tommy (on the boys’).
Several names that saw increased usage due to pop culture were…
The girl name Dua, now at an all-time high thanks to English pop singer Dua Lipa, whose parents were Kosovar refugees.*
The boy name Kylo, thanks to the Star Wars sequel trilogy. (Kylo debuted in 2015, the year the first film was released.)
The boy name Taron, likely due to actor Taron Egerton, featured in the 2019 Elton John biopic Rocketman.
Here are the top ten lists for England and Wales separately, if you’d like to compare the regions…
Finally, here are some of the rare baby names from the other end of the rankings. Each one was given to exactly 3 babies in England and Wales last year.
Yesterday we looked at some of the latest girl name data, so today let’s check in on the 2019 boy names…
Here are the most popular boy names overall:
Liam, 20,502 baby boys
Noah, 19,048
Oliver, 13,891
William, 13,542
Elijah, 13,300
James, 13,087
Benjamin, 12,942
Lucas, 12,412
Mason, 11,408
Ethan, 11,241
Ethan kicked Logan out of the top 10 last year. (Logan is now ranked 16th.)
The boy names that saw the largest increases in usage in terms of absolute numbers of babies were…
Brooks, increased by 1,114 babies
Miles, 860
Legend, 832
Luca, 797
Theodore, 775
Mateo, 757
Leo, 702
Maverick, 701
Noah, 698
Luka, 652
The boy names that saw the largest increases in usage in terms of relative numbers of babies were…
Ermias, increased by 3360%
Sekani, 1992%
Amenadiel, 500%
Kross, 481%
Alexios, 429%
Taz, 340%
Ezran, 333%
Andoni, 309%
Kaleel, 300%
Taysom, 295%
Some explanations…
Ermias was the legal first name of rapper Nipsey Hussle (who died on March 31, 2019).
Sekani was the name of a young character in the film The Hate U Give (2018).
Amenadiel is a character on the TV series Lucifer.
Ezran is the name of a character on the Netflix series The Dragon Prince. (Ezran debuted in the data in 2018, the year the show started airing.)
Taysom Hill is a professional football player with the New Orleans Saints.
Here are the boy names that debuted most impressively in the 2019 data:
Armias, debuted with 54 baby boys
Izhaan, 50
Jsan, 33
Jaiari, 29
Ripp, 26
Sakani, 21
Jardani, 19
Iskender, 17
Kamiri, 17
Siar, 14
Armias and Sakani are spelling variants of Ermias and Sekani (above).
Izhaan is a celebrity baby: Izhaan Mirza Malik was born in October of 2018 to Indian tennis player Sania Mirza and Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik.
Jardani could be from Jardani Jovonovich, the “real” name of popular movie character John Wick…?
The boy names that saw the largest decreases in usage in terms of absolute numbers of babies were…
Logan, decreased by 1,911 babies
Michael, -1,174
Jacob, -1,159
Dylan, -1,076
Mason, -1,065
William, -1,048
Connor, -932
David, -871
Ryan, -837
Joshua, -836
The boy names that saw the largest decreases in usage in terms of relative numbers of babies were Nomar and Gianlucas (tied at -73%), and the boy name that saw the steepest drop off the list was Stephano (from 21 babies in 2018 to fewer than 5 in 2019).
If you can explain any of these rises (or drops), please leave a comment!
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, the most popular baby names in the country in 2018 were Althea and Nathaniel.
Here are the Philippines’ top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2018:
Girl Names
Althea, 2,395 baby girls
Samantha, 2,165
Angel, 2,086
Angela, 1,810
Princess, 1,641
Sophia, 1,537
Sofia, 1,432
Andrea, 1,293
Nathalie, 1,285
Alexa, 1,241
Boy Names
Nathaniel, 2,455 baby boys
James, 2,242
Jacob, 2,028
Gabriel, 2,004
Joshua, 1,980
Angelo, 1,872
Nathan, 1,796
John Mark, 1,611
Christian, 1,537
Daniel, 1,498
New to the girls’ top 10 are Nathalie and Alexa. (Nathalie may have gotten a boost from the character Natalie on the Philippine TV series Wildflower.)
The boys’ top 10 includes the same ten names, but in a different order.
One fast-rising girl name outside the top 10 is Catriona, thanks to Filipino-Australian beauty queen Catriona Gray, who was crowned Miss Universe 2018.
