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Popularity of the baby name Ruby


Posts that mention the name Ruby

Popular baby names in Canberra/ACT (Australia), 2015

According to data from Access Canberra, the most popular baby names in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in 2015 were Charlotte and William.

Here are the ACT’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2015:

Baby Girl NamesBaby Boy Names
1. Charlotte
2. Olivia (tie)
2. Zoe (tie)
4. Ava
5. Sophie
6. Mia
7. Amelia (tie)
7. Chloe (tie)
7. Grace (tie)
10. Emily		1. William
2. Oliver
3. Jack (tie)
3. James (tie)
5. Alexander
6. Thomas
7. Henry (tie)
7. Lachlan (tie)
9. Charlie (tie)
9. Oscar (tie)

On the girls’ list, Mia replaced Ruby.

On the boys’ list, Alexander, Charlie and Oscar replaced Cooper, Noah and Lucas.

Here are the rankings for 2014, if you’d like to compare.

Source: Top 10 baby names – Access Canberra

Another celebrity baby name from a dream

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Actress Elisabeth Rohm dreamed up the name Easton for her daughter in 2008. Singer Fergie dreamed up the name Axl for her son in 2013. Between 2008 and 2013, though, there was a third dreamed-of celebrity baby name that I missed.

Actress Marley Shelton (who played Wendy Peffercorn in The Sandlot) and film producer Beau Flynn welcomed a baby girl in 2009 and named her West, thanks to a dream:

“My husband actually dreamed seven years ago that we had a daughter, and he was calling her West,” Marley recalls. “I immediately said, ‘If we ever have a daughter, we’re definitely naming her that.'”

Their second daughter, Ruby, was born in 2012.

Do you know of any other dreamed-of celebrity baby names?

Source: “Marley Shelton: Being a mom is the best role I’ve ever had!” Life & Style Weekly 11 Nov. 2009.

Image: Adapted from Twilight crescent Moon by ESO/G. Brammer under CC BY 4.0.

Popular baby names in Western Australia, 2015

According to data from the Western Australia Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, the most popular baby names in Western Australia in 2015 were Olivia and Oliver.

Here are WA’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2015:

Baby Girl NamesBaby Boy Names
1. Olivia, 206 baby girls
2. Ava, 197
3. Charlotte, 187
4. Mia, 181
5. Isla, 166
6. Sophie, 162
7. Grace, 155
8. Amelia, 153
9. Ruby, 151
10. Chloe, 145		1. Oliver, 248 baby boys
2. Jack, 228
3. James, 197
4. Noah, 191
5. William, 177
6. Thomas, 174
7. Ethan, 172
8. Mason, 148
9. Liam, 147
10. Lachlan, 141

Emily, the #1 girl name in 2014, was knocked out of the top 10 entirely in 2015. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that happen before, at least for a region of this size.

New to the top 10 are Ruby and Lachlan. Gone are Emily, Ella, Lucas and Jacob. (There were 11 names on each list last year, thanks to ties.)

Sources: Top 50 baby names for parents in Western Australia in 2015, Popular Baby Names – Government of Western Australia

Popular baby names in Victoria (Australia), 2015

According to the Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, the most popular baby names in Victoria, Australia, in 2015 were Olivia and Oliver.

Here are Victoria’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2015:

Girl NamesBoy Names
1. Olivia, 393 baby girls
2. Charlotte, 352
3. Amelia, 338
4. Ava, 324
5. Mia, 283
6. Chloe, 281
7. Zoe, 268
8. Evie, 263
9. Sophie, 242
10. Emily, 237		1. Oliver, 527 baby boys
2. Jack, 415
3. William, 411
4. Thomas, 337
5. Noah, 320
6. Ethan, 305
7. James, 286
8. Lucas, 284
9. Max, 258
10. Charlie, 249

Zoe and Evie replaced Ella and Ruby in the girls’ top 10, and Max and Charlie replaced Mason and Alexander in the boys’ top 10.

Here are the 2014 rankings.

Source: Popular baby names in Victoria – Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria