Top Scottish baby names
Filed under: Names — Alan @ 7:17 am
The top baby names in Scotland were revealed yesterday with Jack taking the honours for males for the seventh time in the past decade, and Sophie once again taking the top spot for female names, after five years being ranked as most popular.
Lewis took second place for boys’ names which has shared the top two spots with Jack for the last decade. James jumped up to third place followed by Liam, and Logan rounding out the top five.
For girls, Olivia was the second most popular name followed in order by Ava, Emily, and Lucy in the fifth position.
Certain names on the list made large notable jumps possibly due to celebrities with Miley taking a jump of 190 places on the list, and Owen jumping 26 places to land at number 32 on the list of most popular boy’s names.
Overall, there were 3977 girls’ names registered in Scotland and 2995 boys’ names registered, which combined means 6972 different names were registered in 2009. Statistics show that out of these names parents are now more willing to take risks and altering the spellings of common names or simply choosing unusual names to begin with.
Two of the most unique names on the list in 2009 were Vanilla for a girl and Denim for a boy.
Some of the more popular names rank lower on the list since multiple spellings of the same named are ranked separately making names such as Aimee and Amy two separate rankings although when placed together they would have ranked second place for girls’ names.
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