Historic lists of top 100 names for baby boys and girls for 1904 to 1994 at 10-yearly intervals.

Rank and count of the top names for baby girls, changes in rank since the previous year and breakdown by country, region, mother's age and month of birth.

Rank and count of the top names for baby boys, changes in rank since the previous year and breakdown by country, region, mother's age and month of birth.

The most popular name for baby boys in England in 2022 was Noah which was the chosen name for 4,320 babies. Noah was also the second-most popular baby name in Wales in this year while Olivia wa s the most popular name for girls in England.

The most popular names for baby girls in England 2022 were Olivia, Amelia and Isla. In the same year, the most popular name for baby boys in England was Noah.

Ranks and counts of baby names for boys and girls in England and Wales, 1996 to 2021.

Top 100 most popular boys' and girls' names.

Source agency: Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Babies First Names Bulletin (Northern Ireland)

This dataset combines raw counts for first/given names of male and female babies in those time periods, and then calculates a probability for a name given the aggregate count. Source datasets are from government authorities: -US: Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications - National Data, 1880 to 2019 -UK: Baby names in England and Wales Statistical bulletins, 2011 to 2018 -Canada: British Columbia 100 Years of Popular Baby names, 1918 to 2018 -Australia: Popular Baby Names, Attorney-General's Department, 1944 to 2019

In 2023, there were approximately ***** million millennials in the United Kingdom, making it the largest generational cohort at that time. Millennials surpassed the Baby Boomer generation as the largest generation for the first time in 2019. The two youngest generations, Gen Z and Gen Alpha, numbered approximately **** million, and *** million respectively. Gen X are, as of the most recent year, the second-largest generation in the UK at ***** million people, with their parent's generation, the Silent Generation, numbering around *** million people in the same year. There were estimated to be ****** people who belonged to the Greatest Generation, the parents of the Baby Boomer generation, who lived through major events such as the Great Depression and World War Two. Post-War Baby Boom The baby boomer generation was the largest generation for much of this period due to the spike in births that happened after the Second World War. In 1947, for example, there were over *** million live births in the United Kingdom, compared with just ******* live births just thirty years later in 1977. Members of this generation are typically the parents of millennials, and were the driving force behind the countercultural movement of the 1960s, due to their large numbers relative to older generations at the time. The next generational cohort after Boomers are Generation X, born between 1965 and 1980. This generation had fewer members than the Boomer generation for most of its existence, and only became larger than it in 2021. Millennials and Gen Z As of 2022, the most common single year of age in the United Kingdom in 2020 was 34, with approximately ******* people this age. Furthermore, people aged between 30 and 34 were the most numerous age group in this year, at approximately 4.67 million people. As of 2022, people in this age group were Millennials, the large generation who came of age in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Many members of this generation entered the workforce following the 2008 financial crash, and suffered through high levels of unemployment during the early 2010s. The generation that followed Millennials, Generation Z, have also experienced tough socio-economic conditions recently, with key formative years dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and an increasingly unstable geopolitical situation.

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In England and Wales, birth, marriage and death (BMD) registration began in July 1837. BMD records were obtained from the ‘UK local BMD’ project (http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/local), a volunteer-led effort to transcribe the local indices of the UK BMD registers for digital preservation. Birth records spanning the complete years 1838-2014 were downloaded in September 2016 from the ‘UK local BMD’ as part of a previous study describing the application of network methods to onomastic data (Bush, et al. 2018; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30379928). These records were then updated in January 2018 for a study describing the re-use of birth records in response to child bereavement (Bush, 2019; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00277738.2018.1536186). Employing the data used for the latter, 23,468,892 birth records were parsed to generate this dataset, which explores trends in alliterative naming within England and Wales. The dataset approximates 130,000 to 230,000 records per year from 1838-1950, 25,000 to 100,000 records per year from 1951-2000, and 5000 to 15,000 records per year from 2001 to 2014. This supplementary archive represents tables and figures drawn from analysis of this dataset. These are provided in support of the paper “Ambivalence, avoidance, and appeal: alliterative aspects of Anglo anthroponyms.” The website hosting the original UK local BMD data, www.ukbmd.org.uk, is operated by Weston Technologies Ltd (Crewe, Cheshire, UK), this company being the owner or license-holder of the intellectual property constituting the birth records. This data was used for the aforementioned studies pursuant to section 29A of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, where a copyright exception permits copies to be made of lawfully accessible material in order to conduct text and data mining for non-commercial research. This archive contains no copies of any of the original birth records and nor does it present data in a form by which they may be reconstructed. In several countries, one of the most pronounced trends in contemporary baby naming is to choose a comparatively uncommon name. Nevertheless, although a well-documented phenomenon, studies of uncommon name use are often limited to forenames. This study analyses approximately 22 million full names from England and 1 million from Wales, given between 1838 and 2014. It addresses the hypothesis that, consistent with the contemporary desire to choose an uncommon name, alliterative names – uncommon by definition – would become increasingly popular. More broadly, this study charts the long-term trends in alliterative naming over time, which in both England and Wales is consistent with a random expectation for much of the 19th century but declines significantly throughout the 20th century to its lowest use in the 1970s. This trend reverses towards the end of the 20th century, with alliterative naming becoming more common in contemporary records. These three aspects of alliterative name use are thematically referred to as ‘ambivalence’, ‘avoidance’ and ‘appeal’, and may reflect changing attitudes towards alliterative naming. The relatively renewed appeal of alliterative names towards the end of the 20th century complements previous research on the preponderance of uncommon names and the contemporary ‘need for uniqueness’ in naming.

According to a survey in 2022, which asked people in the United Kingdom which statements most closely described different generations, around ** percent of people thought that Baby Boomers had the most influence over political decisions, the most common answer for this generation. This was also the joint-top answer for Gen X, with this generation and Millennials seen to also value career advancement over a work-life balance. For Gen Z, ** percent of respondents believed that this generation were too easily offended and were not prepared to work hard to get ahead in life.