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Popularity of the baby name Boris


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Popular baby names in Bulgaria, 2017

Flag of Bulgaria
Flag of Bulgaria

According to Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute, the most popular baby names in the country in 2017 were Viktoria and Aleksandar.

Here are Bulgaria’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2017:

Girl Names

  1. Viktoria, 741 baby girls
  2. Maria, 718
  3. Nikol, 682
  4. Raia, 508
  5. Aleksandra, 483
  6. Sofia, 463
  7. Daria, 447
  8. Simona, 391
  9. Gabriela, 380
  10. Yoana, 378

Boy Names

  1. Aleksandar, 1,116 baby boys
  2. Georgi, 1,009
  3. Martin, 804
  4. Dimitar, 687
  5. Ivan, 668
  6. Nikola, 640
  7. Daniel, 623
  8. Boris, 615
  9. Kaloyan, 599
  10. Viktor, 562

The girls’ top 10 includes the same 10 names as the year before, but in a different order.

In the boys’ top 10, Boris replaced Nikolay.

The top two names were the same in 2016.

Source: Names in Bulgaria in 2017 (preliminary data) – NSI (PDF)

Image: Adapted from Flag of Bulgaria (public domain)

Popular baby names in South Australia, 2016

According to data released in March by South Australia’s Office of Births, Deaths and Marriages, the most popular baby names in South Australia in 2016 were again Charlotte and Oliver.

Here are South Australia’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2016:

Girl Names
1. Charlotte, 139 baby girls
2. Olivia, 123
3. Ava, 116
4. Mia, 103
5. Amelia, 96
6. Evie, 94
7. Emily, 85
8. Isla, 84
9. Ruby, 81
10. Ella, 80 (tied with #11 Sophie)

Boy Names
1. Oliver, 190 baby boys
2. Jack, 129
3. William, 117
4. James, 100 (2-way tie)
5. Mason, 100 (2-way tie)
6. Henry, 96 (2-way tie)
7. Noah, 96 (2-way tie)
8. Lucas, 93
9. Ethan, 89
10. Liam, 82 (tied with #11 Max)

In the girls’ top 10, Evie, Isla, Ruby and Ella replaced Scarlett, Sophie, Chloe and Grace.

In the boys’ top 10, Mason and Henry replaced Charlie and Thomas.

Here’s a sampling of names from the other end of the list. Each of these was given to a single baby in South Australia last year:

  • Unique Girl Names: Avoca, Bindarray, Clova, Diyo, Ellaline, Fradella, Gladys, Hilivelia, Ilina, Jency, Kabedi, Lomina, Minuli, Nazo, Ottilia, Porphyria, Queen, Rija, Sedra, Taskeen, Uzra, Vaeora, Winterlily, Xindi, Yilia, Zarlie
  • Unique Boy Names: Axelian, Boris, Callington, Dipson, Elio, Finlo, Gino, Hyson, Ivor, Jeffen, Kenula, Lison, Morley, Noam, Oxled, Penn, Quade, Reef, Salem, Tully, Uzziah, Valan, Walt, Xinze, York, Zarlo

Finally, here are the 2015 rankings, if you’d like to compare.

Sources: Popular Baby Names – Data.SA, Can you spell that please? – popular baby names in 2016

Popular baby names in Bulgaria, 2013

Flag of Bulgaria
Flag of Bulgaria

Bulgaria’s top baby names of 2013 were released last month.

According to preliminary data from the National Statistical Institute (NSI), the most popular baby names last year were Viktoria and Georgi.

Here are Bulgaria’s top 19 girl names and top 19 boy names of 2013:

Girl Names

  1. Viktoria (2.9% of baby girls)
  2. Nikol (2.7%)
  3. Maria (2.4%)
  4. Alexandra (1.7%)
  5. Gabriela (1.5%)
  6. Raya (1.2%)
  7. Yoana (1.2%)
  8. Simona
  9. Elena
  10. Dariya
  11. Teodora
  12. Siyana
  13. Mihaela
  14. Gergana
  15. Magdalena
  16. Bozhidara
  17. Monika
  18. Ivayla
  19. Karina

Boy Names

  1. Georgi (3.55% of baby boys)
  2. Alexandar (3.1%)
  3. Martin (2.9%)
  4. Ivan (2.4%)
  5. Dimitar (2.1%)
  6. Nikola (2.1%)
  7. Nikolay (2.0%)
  8. Viktor
  9. Kristiyan
  10. Kaloyan
  11. Boris
  12. Teordor
  13. Bozhidar
  14. Petar
  15. Stefan
  16. Alex
  17. Ivaylo
  18. Mihail
  19. Angel

Source: Most popular baby names in Bulgaria – Georgi, Viktoria

Image: Adapted from Flag of Bulgaria (public domain)

Where did the baby name Yeltsin come from in 1992?

Russian president Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007)
Boris Yeltsin

In mid-1991, Russian politician Boris Yeltsin became the first President of the Russian Federation.

In early 1992, the New York Times announced that President Bush and President Yeltsin had “proclaimed a new era of “friendship and partnership” as they declared a formal end to seven decades of rivalry” (i.e., the Cold War).

That same year, the baby name Yeltsin appeared in the U.S. baby name data for the first time:

  • 1994: unlisted
  • 1993: 8 baby boys named Yeltsin
  • 1992: 7 baby boys named Yeltsin [debut]
  • 1991: unlisted
  • 1990: unlisted

It stuck around one more year before disappearing again. (Perhaps because Yeltsin’s popularity declined drastically during the 1990s, as his economic policies caused mass poverty and hyperinflation in Russia.)

What does the Russian surname Yeltsin mean? “The Yeltsin surname derives from yel’, Russian for “fir tree,” and is a fairly common one in the [Ural] region,” which is where Boris was born.

Sources:

Image: Adapted from Leonid Kravchuk, Stanislav Shushkevich and Boris Yeltsin by RIA Novosti under CC BY-SA 3.0.