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Popular and unique baby names in Scotland (UK), 2007

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Flag of the United Kingdom

Scotland’s top baby names have been released!

Here are the top 20 girl names and top 20+ boy names of 2007:

Girl names

  1. Sophie, 613 baby girls
  2. Emma, 479
  3. Lucy, 417
  4. Katie, 410
  5. Erin, 401
  6. Ellie, 392
  7. Amy, 369
  8. Emily, 364
  9. Chloe, 363
  10. Olivia, 357
  11. Hannah, 346
  12. Jessica, 296
  13. Grace, 279
  14. Ava, 254
  15. Rebecca, 251
  16. Isla, 232
  17. Brooke, 219
  18. Megan, 204
  19. Niamh, 203
  20. Eilidh, 200

Boy names

  1. Lewis, 687 baby boys
  2. Jack, 676
  3. Ryan, 476
  4. James, 456
  5. Callum, 411
  6. Cameron, 396
  7. Daniel, 391
  8. Liam, 375
  9. Jamie, 350 (3-way tie)
  10. Kyle, 350 (3-way tie)
  11. Matthew, 350 (3-way tie)
  12. Logan, 346
  13. Finlay, 339
  14. Adam, 323
  15. Alexander, 299
  16. Dylan, 293
  17. Aiden, 289
  18. Andrew, 288
  19. Ben, 286
  20. Aaron, 279 (tie)
  21. Connor, 279 (tie)

Approximately 6,500 baby names were bestowed in Scotland in 2007. Of these, about 2,400 girl names and 1,700 boy names were unique (as in, given to only one child). Here’s a sampling of those unique names:

Unique girl namesUnique boy Names
Amberly, Babyjane, Chardonnay, Divine-Grace, Eliska, Fizzah, Gracealexandra, Heaven-Leigh, Irmak, Jasmina, Kiranpreet, Luighsighe, Misty-Blue, Noor-El-Iman, Oluwateniolami, Possum, Queeneffa, Rhythm, Sheignneth, Tianqi, Uxia, VJay, Wezi, Xanthia, Yolwandle, ZalfaAtom, Brydon-Craig, Crombie, Daood, Eriz, Favour, Gurardass, Heini, Ieuan, Jock, Kurtis-Jae, Loche, Montague, Nader, Olaoluwapolorimi, Promise, Qirui Ruslan, Stephenjunior, Taliesin, Ubayd, Vithujan, Wesley-Scott, Xabier, Yadgor, Zaineddine

To see more, download the full list directly from the General Registrar Office for Scotland.

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

Popular baby names in Malta, 2006

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Flag of Malta

The National Statistics Office of Malta, a tiny island nation in the Mediterranean Sea, compiles baby name rankings by lumping variant spellings of names (like Matthew, Matteo and Matthias) together into a single entry.

The most popular baby names in Malta last year were:

Girl Names

  1. Maria/Mariah (73 babies)
  2. Maya (53)
  3. Amy (43)
  4. Martina & Emma (tie; 40 each)
  5. Shania (36)
  6. Ylenia & Michela/Michaela & Sarah (tie; 35 each)
  7. Elisa/Eliza (33)
  8. Julia (32)
  9. Jasmin (30)
  10. Hailey (72)
  11. Nicole (26)
  12. Francesca (25)
  13. Catherine/Katarina/Kate (23)
  14. Amber & Hannah (tie; 19 each)
  15. Emily & Kelsey (tie; 18 each)
  16. Thea (16)
  17. Kaylie & Lara (tie; 15 each)
  18. Matthea (14)
  19. Mireille & Naomi (tie; 13 each)
  20. Aaliyah (12)

Boy Names

  1. Luke/Luca (79 babies)
  2. Matthew/Matteo/Matthias (78)
  3. Jake (67)
  4. Andre & Isaac & Michael/Michele (tie; 49 each)
  5. Nicholas (46)
  6. Aidan (42)
  7. Kieran (41)
  8. Daniel (40)
  9. Kyle (37)
  10. Nathan/Nathaniel (31)
  11. Gabriel (30)
  12. Christian & Julian & Liam (tie; 27 each)
  13. Alexander (26)
  14. Zachery (23)
  15. Thomas (22)
  16. James (21)
  17. Benjamin (18)
  18. Tristan (17)
  19. Jaydon & Kurt & Leon & Sven (tie; 16 each)
  20. Denzel & John Paul (tie; 15 each)

There were 1,846 girls and 2,039 boys born in Malta in 2006. (The country only has 402,000 inhabitants total.) Based on the numbers above, 41% of those girls and 46% of those boys were given a top-20 name.

Image: Adapted from Flag of Malta (public domain)