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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

Popular baby names in the Netherlands, 2015

Flag of the Netherlands
Flag of the Netherlands

According to data from Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), the most popular baby names in the Netherlands in 2015 were Emma and Liam.

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

Baby Girl NamesBaby Boy Names
1. Emma
2. Julia
3. Sophie
4. Anna
5. Mila
6. Eva
7. Tess
8. Lotte
9. Sara
10. Zoë		1. Liam
2. Sem (a form of Shem)
3. Lucas
4. Luuk
5. Noah
6. Milan
7. Daan
8. Levi
9. Finn
10. Jesse

On the girls’ list, Lotte replaced Isa (which fell from 6th place to 20th).

On the boys’ list, Jesse replaced Bram (which fell from 2nd place to 13th).

Another significant mover of the boys’ list was Liam itself. Liam ranked 17th in 2013, then 9th in 2014, and finally 1st in 2015.

Other names bestowed last year in the Netherlands include Goodluck, Dikshit, Lovelace, Genius, Narbys-Lenay, Rooney, Amen, Islam, Jood, Godmother, Eh, and You.

The top names in 2014 were Sophie and Daan. In 2013, they were Tess and Sem.

Sources: Kindernamen top 20 – SVB, Emma and Liam are most popular Dutch kids names, but what about little Eh?

UPDATE, Nov. 2016: According to Amsterdam University researchers, who took combined spellings into account, the top names of 2015 were Sarah and Luuk. My source didn’t offer the researchers’ full top 10 lists, but here’s what I took from the article:

1. Sarah/Sara/Zara
2. Sophie/Sofie
3. Anne/Anna
4. Lisa/Lize/Lise/Liza

1. Luuk/Luc/Luke
2. Lucas/Lukas
[…]
10. Mohamed/Mohammed/Muhammed/Mohammad

Source: Sarah and Luuk are the most popular Dutch baby names, say university researchers

Image: Adapted from Flag of the Netherlands (public domain)

Popular baby names in New South Wales (Australia), 2015

According to preliminary data from the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, the most popular baby names in New South Wales, Australia, in 2015 were Charlotte and Oliver.

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

Girl Names

  1. Charlotte, 529 baby girls
  2. Olivia, 518
  3. Mia, 433
  4. Amelia, 402
  5. Chloe, 396
  6. Ava, 389
  7. Emily, 369
  8. Zoe, 322
  9. Grace, 319
  10. Sophia, 303

Boy Names

  1. Oliver, 607 baby boys
  2. William, 543
  3. Jack, 497
  4. Noah, 424
  5. Lucas, 400
  6. Thomas, 380
  7. James, 371
  8. Isaac, 324
  9. Ethan, 323
  10. Jacob, 321

“A final list of the top 100 baby names will be published on the website by April 2016.”

In the meanwhile, here are the 2014 rankings for NSW.

Update: The finalized rankings put Alexander in 10th and Jacob in 11th on the boys’ list.

Source: Charlotte and Oliver most popular baby names in NSW

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