Popular Baby Names

[krnflwr]

Just ran into this list, and thought I'd share, seeing as we've been discussing names lately.

The top 10 names of 2003:

Girls' Names
Emily
Emma
Madison
Hannah
Hailey
Sarah
Kaitlyn
Isabella
Olivia
Abigail

Boys' Names
Jacob
Aidan
Ethan
Matthew
Nicholas
Joshua
Ryan
Michael
Zachary
Tyler

[krnflwr]

And I thought this was interesting, too....a historical perspective.

1890's Most Popular Names

Boys' Names
John
William
James
George
Charles
Joseph
Frank
Harry
Henry
Edward


Girls' Names
Mary
Anna
Elizabeth
Emma
Margaret
Rose
Ethel
Florence
Ida
Bertha, Helen

[Jillerina]

Here is the top 10 list for the province of Quebec (where I live) in 2003.

Girls Names
1 NOEMIE
2 GABRIELLE
3 MEGAN
4 ARIANE
5 LAURENCE
6 LEA
7 SARAH
8 JADE
9 LAURIE
10 AUDREY

Boys Names
1 WILLIAM
2 SAMUEL
3 JEREMY
4 GABRIEL
5 MATHIS
6 OLIVIER
7 XAVIER
8 THOMAS
9 ANTHONY
10 ALEXIS

[mirthfulmum]

Thanks for the lists. It's so interesting to read about names people choose.

Jillerina - How did you find the list for your provinces most popular names? I'm wondering if I could find the list of most popular names for BC.

[OakEmber]

Mirthfulmum- try searching BC+ vital statistics+ babynames or something to that affect. The BC site seems slow to update, last I checked it hadn't been updated to 2003 yet. The Alberta vital statistics site is awesome, it shows every single name used in a year (BC only lists names used 5 times or more) so there are tons of names. I don't have time to find the links for you this morning but let me know if you find it or not, I can get them for you later this afternoon if you have trouble.

Jillerina- Wow, the top 10 in Quebec are sure different than other places...that's really cool.

Karin- great idea!