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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Most Popular Boys' Names in English-speaking World

With the release of the US's top 1000, I thought it was time to bring this back: the most popular names in the English-speaking world released for 2007.

Countries/stats used: England & Wales, Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia), New Zealand, Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia), Northern Ireland, Scotland and USA. I couldn't find 2007 stats for the other 'English speaking' areas (eg Republic of Ireland).

This is the first top 20 list, and does not include the mammoth influence of the USA, full stats here:

JACK
JOSHUA
THOMAS
WILLIAM
DANIEL
JAMES
OLIVER
ETHAN
SAMUEL
RYAN
MATTHEW
BENJAMIN
JACOB
HARRY
CHARLIE
ALEXANDER
LIAM
DYLAN
TYLER

Now Jack had over 6500 births in England (most number of births of the countries not including USA), and ended up with approximately 11500 births, 2000 more than the rest. The highest ranking name not in the English list is Lachlan at #61 with 1983 births.

For the 'including US' list, I added all names up to the top 50 and names previously mentioned in other countries' popularity lists, with more than 500 instances. Giving:

JOSHUA
JACOB
ETHAN
DANIEL
WILLIAM
MICHAEL
MATTHEW
ALEXANDER
JAMES
JACK
RYAN
CHRISTOPHER
JOSEPH
NOAH
Anthony
ANDREW
SAMUEL
DAVID
BENJAMIN

1) Jacob is not on top! The US's popular name is not the English speaking world's most popular name. Joshua ranks in 4th in the US, but it's world popularity propels it to the top.

2) Jack is pushed down to #11 by a proportionally small number of American's choosing this name.

3) Other non-US entries to this top 20 are:
Samuel and Benjamin


Just a few other lists: Australia's combined top 20:
JACK
JOSHUA
THOMAS
Lachlan
WILLIAM
ETHAN
Cooper
SAMUEL
RYAN
JAMES
RILEY
NOAH
OLIVER
DANIEL
LUCAS
BENJAMIN
LIAM
ALEXANDER
JACOB


Canada's combined top 20 (not including Quebec, or other areas that did not provide 07 data):

ETHAN
MATTHEW
JACOB
JOSHUA
RYAN
ALEXANDER
BENJAMIN
OWEN
DANIEL
NOAH
LIAM
NATHAN
WILLIAM
Nicholas
LUCAS
LOGAN
SAMUEL
JACK
MICHAEL


And the UK (combing England & Wales, Scotland and N Ireland):
JACK
THOMAS
OLIVER
JOSHUA
DANIEL
HARRY
JAMES
CHARLIE
WILLIAM
ALFIE
LEWIS
SAMUEL
JOSEPH
GEORGE
ETHAN
BENJAMIN
DYLAN
MATTHEW
RYAN

More statistical versions of these lists can be found here

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