From 2016 to 2020, the Canadian territory of Yukon (which shares a border with the U.S. state of Alaska) welcomed 2,023 babies.
The baby girls were given a total of 677 different names (522 of which were used only once), while the baby boys were given a total of 601 different names (418 of which were used only once).
What were the most popular names overall? Ava and Henry.
Here are Yukon’s top girl names and top boy names for the five-year period (2016-2020):
Girl names
- Ava, 13 baby girls
- Lily, 10
- Olivia, 9
- Charlotte and Isla, 8 each [tie]
- Eleanor, 7
- Alice, Amelia, Anna, Aurora, Emma, Evelyn, Freya, Grace, Hazel, and Sadie, 6 each [10-way tie]
Boy names
- Henry, 11 baby boys
- Carter, Jacob, Mason, and Thomas, 9 each [4-way tie]
- Liam, Owen, and Theodore, 8 [3-way tie]
- Benjamin, Charles, Hunter, Jack, James, Oliver, and Wyatt, 7 each [7-way tie]
- Alexander, Asher, Austin, Isaac, Jasper, Lucas, Noah, Rowan, and William, 6 each [9-way tie]
During the previous five-year period, from 2011 to 2015, the top names in Yukon were Ava and Liam.
P.S. According to the CBC, Yukon’s top names in 2019 specifically were Ava/Isla/Livia/Quinn (a four-way tie) and Henry.
Source: Baby Names in Yukon, 2016-2020 – Yukon Bureau of Statistics
Image: Adapted from Flag of Yukon (public domain)