New Banner & Middle Names

Hurrah. Yes, I have a new banner. Am at university at the moment, so my output will be rather slow (hence no posts since Jan 1). So much snow here. 

I'm still poking around with the Telegraph/Times names lists, but here is the top 10 girls middle names (any position) for Telegraph:

1	Rose	101
2	Elizabeth	69
3	Grace	62
4	Mary	48
5	Jane	37
6	Alice	32
7	Charlotte	26
8	Louise	26
9	May	25
10	Ann	22

I'm surprised that Ann isn't higher (though Anne is #14, two spellings may have dented Ann's popularity a little) - it feels much more like a middle name to me than Charlotte. Still, this list proves that Rose reigns surpreme.

Times girls:

1	Rose	64
2	Elizabeth	41
3	Grace	33
4	Mary	33
5	Alice	23
6	Jane	18
7	Anne	17
8	May	17
9	Charlotte	16
10	Florence	13

Sorry for the strange spacing. Once again, Rose is #1. Alice & Jane have swapped places, while Anne is up in #7 (Ann is #12). Louise has dropped all the way down to #15, and so Florence (#12 Telegraph) is up to #10. There are fewer births in the Times list, so that accounts for the fewer middle names.

Number of middle names - Telegraph girls:

No. Of mns.		%
4 mns	10	0.85
3 mns	333	28.34
2 mns	736	62.64
1 mn	96	8.17

2 mns are the most popular, but more than a quarter of Telegraph parents chose 3 mns.

Telegraph boys:

		%
4 mns	16	1.256874
3 mns	540	42.41948
2 mns	624	49.01807
1 mn	93	7.305577
	1273

 Two middles is also still the top for the boys, but the margin between 2 and 3 is not so large, as well as there being a larger % with 4 middle names.