Popular Names in England and Wales

Information from National Statistics
Boys
Rank Name +/-
100.
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Laurence
-13
99.
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Owen
-1
98.
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Lewis
-20
97.
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Ivan
new
96.
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Edmund
-16
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Gilbert
-23
94.
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Alec
-10
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Howard
+2
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Graham
new
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Mohammed
new
90.
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Lionel
-9
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Martin
-3
88.
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Paul
+5
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Hubert
-16
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Keith
new
85.
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Ian
new
84.
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Edgar
-19
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Benjamin
-20
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Roland
+1
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Arnold
-6
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Basil
+12
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Trevor
+21
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Vincent
+13
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Ivor
-4
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Stephen
-8
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Allan
+14
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Derrick
new
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Andrew
-6
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Daniel
-13
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Hugh
-10
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Horace
-27
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Christopher
-3
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Terence
new
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Percy
-23
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Brian
new
65.
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Desmond
new
64.
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Ralph
-4
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Fred
-16
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Lawrence
0
61.
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Colin
+21
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Cecil
-14
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Sydney
-22
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Denis
+11
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Samuel
-21
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Edwin
-6
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Wilfred
-20
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Alexander
-1
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Philip
-1
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Derek
new
51.
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Gerald
+19
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Victor
-1
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Anthony
+27
48.
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Clifford
-3
47.
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Maurice
+1
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Herbert
-21
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Sidney
-14
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Patrick
-6
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Francis
-9
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Bernard
-2
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Roy
+23
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Michael
-1
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Gordon
+15
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Douglas
+19
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Alan
+21
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Geoffrey
+19
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Cyril
-6
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Walter
-11
33.
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Jack
-3
32.
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Richard
-6
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Reginald
-7
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Harry
-11
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Donald
+12
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Raymond
+23
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Alfred
-13
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Harold
-8
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Leonard
-5
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Henry
-8
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Ernest
-10
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Norman
+6
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David
+11
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Dennis
+36
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Frank
-4
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Eric
+9
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Stanley
+5
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Joseph
-4
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Leslie
+2
14.
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Charles
-5
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Albert
-5
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Edward
-1
11.
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Peter
+31
10.
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Frederick
-3
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Arthur
-3
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Robert
+2
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Kenneth
+26
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Ronald
+15
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Thomas
-1
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James
+1
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George
0
2.
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William
0
1.
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John
0
Girls
Rank Name +/-
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Amy
-43
99.
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Sybil
new
98.
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Hannah
-28
97.
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Rosemary
new
96.
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Janet
-5
95.
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Maureen
new
94.
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Christine
new
93.
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Dora
-34
92.
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Lucy
-31
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Alma
new
90.
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Lillian
-19
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Eleanor
-22
88.
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Daisy
-34
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Monica
new
86.
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Bridget
+6
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Mildred
-5
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Thelma
new
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Mavis
new
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Norah
-26
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Stella
new
80.
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June
new
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Rita
new
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Gertrude
-32
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Enid
+17
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Ann
-4
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Pauline
new
74.
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Ada
-35
73.
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Jane
-22
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Daphne
new
71.
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Josephine
+24
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Emily
-32
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Hazel
new
68.
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Nellie
-36
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Ruby
+1
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Maria
+24
65.
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Eva
-17
64.
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Mabel
-30
63.
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Marie
+14
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Helen
-2
61.
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Anne
-6
60.
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Pamela
new
59.
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Jessie
-19
58.
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Brenda
new
57.
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Nora
-10
56.
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May
-21
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Ruth
+7
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Agnes
-11
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Sarah
-22
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Beatrice
-19
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Grace
-9
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Nancy
0
49.
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Marion
+14
48.
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Freda
+4
47.
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Lily
-22
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Frances
-9
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Constance
-1
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Rose
-14
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Sheila
new
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Sylvia
+40
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Ellen
-17
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Gwendoline
+5
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Beryl
+54
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Ethel
-19
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Catherine
-1
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Peggy
new
35.
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Evelyn
-7
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Iris
+24
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Muriel
+8
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Ivy
-15
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Patricia
+68
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Alice
-17
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Violet
-9
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Annie
-16
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Olive
-1
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Hilda
-11
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Lilian
-9
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Phyllis
-10
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Florence
-17
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Edith
-14
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Audrey
+65
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Edna
+2
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Winifred
-9
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Barbara
+35
17.
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Elsie
-10
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Vera
+7
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Doreen
+63
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Gladys
-3
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Marjorie
+5
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Jean
+63
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Betty
+54
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Eileen
+17
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Elizabeth
0
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Irene
+13
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Doris
-4
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Kathleen
-1
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Dorothy
-1
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Joyce
+45
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Joan
+26
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Mary
-1
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Margaret
+1