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Popular baby names in New Zealand, 2013

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Flag of New Zealand

New Zealand’s top baby names of 2013 were announced last week.

According to NZ’s Department of Internal Affairs, the country’s most popular names of 2013 were Charlotte and Oliver.

Here are the top 25 girl names and top 25 boy names of 2013:

Girl Names

  1. Charlotte
  2. Emily
  3. Ruby
  4. Sophie
  5. Olivia
  6. Isla
  7. Amelia
  8. Ava
  9. Isabella
  10. Ella
  11. Chloe
  12. Grace
  13. Mia
  14. Lily
  15. Emma
  16. Sophia
  17. Lucy
  18. Mila
  19. Harper
  20. Zoe
  21. Georgia
  22. Paige
  23. Hannah
  24. Aria
  25. Jessica

Boy Names

  1. Oliver
  2. Jack
  3. James
  4. William
  5. Mason
  6. Liam
  7. Samuel
  8. Lucas
  9. Noah
  10. Thomas
  11. Hunter
  12. Ethan
  13. Jacob
  14. Benjamin
  15. Daniel
  16. Max
  17. Joshua
  18. Ryan
  19. Cooper
  20. Blake
  21. Lachlan
  22. Charlie
  23. Levi
  24. Leo
  25. Elijah

Girl names on the rise include Isla, Mila, Aria, Eden (30th), Willow (33rd) and Pippa (44th).

Boy names on the rise include Hunter and Elijah.

Another boy name — Braxton — debuted at #28 on the NZ top 100 in 2012 and was still going strong in 2013 at 29th. The explanation for Braxton’s sudden popularity could be the Australian soap opera Home and Away, which is popular in NZ. In 2011, the show introduced a trio of brothers named Darryl “Brax” Braxton, Heath Braxton and Casey Braxton. The eldest, Brax, seems to have emerged as the favorite Braxton brother.

Sources: The baby names NZ loves, Most Popular Male and Female First Names

Image: Adapted from Flag of New Zealand (public domain)

Popular baby names in British Columbia (Canada), 2012

British Columbia published its most recent list of popular baby names several days ago.

According to the B.C. Vital Statistics Agency, the province’s top names of 2012 were Ethan for boys and Olivia for girls.

Here are the top 20 girl names and top 20 boy names of 2012:

Baby Girl NamesBaby Boy Names
1. Olivia, 274 baby girls
2. Emma, 265
3. Sophia, 232
4. Emily, 195
5. Ava, 187
6. Ella, 175
7. Chloe, 143
8. Isabella, 142
9. Avery, 138
10. Hannah, 130
11. Sophie, 127
12. Abigail, 126
13. Charlotte, 122
14. Lily, 121
15. Brooklyn, 113
16. Madison, 112
17. Isla, 111
18. Grace, 101
19. Maya, 99
20. Amelia, 96		1. Ethan, 297 baby boys
2. Liam, 264
3. Lucas, 231
4. Mason, 207
5. Logan, 203
6. Noah, 193
7. Alexander, 190
8. Benjamin, 176
9. Jacob, 168
10. Jack, 163
11. Owen, 157
12. Ryan, 152
13. Daniel, 150
14. Oliver, 150
15. James, 147
16. Nathan, 147
17. Jayden, 146
18. Samuel, 140
19. Matthew, 139
20. William, 133

Here are more of B.C.’s popular baby names of 2012, and here’s an interactive graph showing how various baby names have fared over time in B.C.

Source: What were the top baby names for 2012?

Popular baby names in Prince Edward Island (Canada), 2013

Prince Edward Island’s top baby names of 2013 were announced recently.

According to provisional data from PEI’s vital statistics office, the most popular baby names in the province are Brooklyn and Liam.

Between January 1 and December 6, a total of 1,255 babies were born on the island and 746 different baby names were registered. Here are several hundred of those names, grouped by usage:

Girl names

  1. Brooklyn, 9 baby girls
  2. Olivia, 8
  3. Ellie and Madison, 7 each [tie]
  4. Claire, Ella, Emma, Lydia, and Sophia, 6 each [5-way tie]
  5. Alexis, Callie, Julia, Lauren, Mackenzie, and Sophie, 5 each [6-way tie]
  6. Abigail, Amelia, Ava, Charlotte, Layla, Lily, Sadie, Summer, and Victoria, 4 each [9-way tie]
  7. Alexa, Anna, Annie, Aria, Aubree, Danica, Elizabeth, Felicity, Grace, Hannah, Harper, Jessica, Jordyn, Keira, Kinsley, Lexi, Lucy, Madelyn, Molly, Mya, Paisley, Peyton, Piper, Quinn, Sarah, Scarlett, Stella, Tessa, and Violet, 3 each [29-way tie]
  8. Aaralyn, Adalyn, Aleah, Alice, Alyson, Amy, Anabelle, Averie, Avery, Ayla, Brooke, Brooklynn, Casey, Charlie, Elle, Elly, Emersyn, Evelyn, Fiona, Georgia, Gracie, Hailey, Isabella, Isla, Izabella, Jaelyn, Kate, Katherine, Kathryn, Kayla, Kyleigh, Leah, Lylah, Macie, Maggie, Marley, Mary, Meredith, Mila, Nevaeh, Paige, Rebekah, Ruby, Ryleigh, Samantha, Savannah, Selena, Serena, Serenity, Taylor, and Zoey, 2 each [51-way tie]
  9. Adalay, Aislinn, Arista, Avalon, Avurri, Bonnie, Brae-Lynn, Brantley, Breagh, Brenya, Carling, Daelynn, Dawsyn, Ellavine, Elliet, Ellowyn, Erda, Felix, Georgie, Iola, Iona, Ivy, Jayla, Jozee, Keiannah, Khloey, Lewyn, Maeryn, Mataya, Meah, Merleah, Misk, Myrissa, Nahala, Naiomee, Penny, Primrose, Reenie, Rilynn, Ronnie, Rora, Soraya, Theia, and Zadie, 1 each (a small selection)

Boy names

  1. Liam, 11 baby boys
  2. Hunter, 10
  3. Connor and Jack, 9 each [tie]
  4. Cohen, Jaxon, and John, 8 each [3-way tie]
  5. Landon, Owen, and William, 7 each [3-way tie]
  6. Benjamin, Caleb, Henry, Lucas, Mason, and Noah, 6 each [6-way tie]
  7. Alex, Alexander, Carter, Charlie, David, Jackson, James, Jase, Joseph, and Wyatt, 5 each [10-way tie]
  8. Austin, Camden, Cameron, Emmett, Griffin, Harrison, Hudson, Jace, Jonah, Kingston, Lincoln, Marcus, Nash, Nathan, Oliver, Parker, Ryan, Ryder, Seth, and Xavier, 4 each [20-way tie]
  9. Charles, Clark, Cooper, Daniel, Drake, Dylan, Edward, Eli, Elijah, Emerson, Evan, Felix, Gabriel, Gavin, Gus, Isaac, Isaiah, Jacob, Jax, Jonathan, Joshua, Kai, Kaiden, Malcolm, Michael, Nathaniel, Riley, Sawyer, Thomas, and Tristan, 3 each [30-way tie]
  10. Antonio, Beau, Beckett, Brayden, Caden, Casey, Cash, Clarke, Dawson, Declan, Dominic, Drew, Elliot, Elliott, Ethan, Ezra, Gage, Grayson, Hayden, Jaxson, Jayden, Kole, Levi, Logan, Luke, Matthew, Morgan, Nate, Nicholas, Nolan, Peter, Ryker, Rylan, Sebastian, Simon, Tanner, Taylor, Theo, Turner, Ty, and Tye, 2 each [41-way tie]
  11. Abel, Aeros, Attwood, Blaiz, Boe, Canaan, Clive, Davud, Draeson, Fynn, Hadwin, Haitao, Jaece, Jedrek, Kessel, Montgomery, Neeko, Odell, Reethym, Rigon, Sudta, Toffer, Tylan, Wesdon, and Zyler, 1 each (a small selection)

I’m not sure when the finalized version of PEI’s 2013 list will be released, but I’ll be on the lookout for it.

Update, Jan. 2015: The 2014 list for PEI just came out, and it included a link to the 2013 data…which is exactly the same as the above. So it looks like PEI doesn’t release finalized lists.

Sources:

Popular and unique baby names in Scotland (UK), 2013

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Flag of the United Kingdom

This is the second 2013 list I’ve seen so far.

According to provisional finalized data from Scotland’s General Register Office, the most popular baby names in Scotland are still Sophie and Jack.

Here are Scotland’s projected top 20 girl names and top 20 boy names of 2013:

Girl Names

  1. Sophie, 516 baby girls
  2. Olivia, 499
  3. Emily, 490
  4. Isla, 409
  5. Lucy, 393
  6. Ava, 383
  7. Jessica, 374
  8. Amelia, 303
  9. Ella, 300
  10. Millie, 297
  11. Lily, 288
  12. Chloe, 267
  13. Sophia, 266
  14. Ellie, 256
  15. Eva, 254
  16. Emma, 251
  17. Mia, 236
  18. Freya, 225 (tie)
  19. Grace, 225 (tie)
  20. Erin, 223

Boy Names

  1. Jack, 595 baby boys
  2. James, 434
  3. Lewis, 382
  4. Oliver, 361
  5. Daniel, 359
  6. Logan, 349
  7. Alexander, 318
  8. Lucas, 313
  9. Charlie, 301
  10. Harry, 299
  11. Mason, 292
  12. Ethan, 284
  13. Noah, 282
  14. Harris, 270
  15. Riley, 265
  16. Finlay, 259
  17. Alfie, 257
  18. Jacob, 249
  19. Max, 247
  20. Adam, 243

New to the top 20 girl names are Ella and Erin. Drop-outs are Hannah and Holly.

New to the top 20 boy names are Noah, Harris and Jacob. Drop-outs are Tyler, Aaron, Ryan and Liam. (There’s an extra name on the drop-out list because there was a tie for 20th place on the boys’ list last year.)

Of the 4,396 girl names bestowed last year in Scotland, 55 were given to more than 100 baby girls while 2,872 were used only once.

Of the 3,410 boy names bestowed, 74 were given to more than 100 baby boys while 2,197 were used only once.

Here are some of the names used only once in Scotland last year:

Unique Girl NamesUnique Boy Names
Anadoo, Ayse-Gul, Bellatrix, Bjelle, Boroka, Calaposha, Claurieli, Comfort, Diorlouise, Dristy, Drooj, Io, Light, Morag, Nellicy, Ruvimbo, Scarlett-Beau, Scotland, Success, Tarannom, WillowmenaArgyll-Sutherland, Bhriclan, Boto, Bright, Cal-El, Dempster, Frew, Gexian, Godsrest, Grave, Hollywood, Johnboy, Jozzel, King-Enoch, Ledley-Lee, Mnelisi, Moray-Geo, Noxx, Success, Timocy, Woodiee

(Yup, one Success on each side.)

Want to see past lists of popular baby names in Scotland? Check out the 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009 lists.

Sources: Babies’ First Names 2013 – GRO Scotland, Baby names: Jack and Sophie again Scotland’s most popular

Image: Adapted from Flag of the United Kingdom (public domain)