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Top ten boys' names in the the UK 2008

Here we have three sets of statistics for us to consider:

- England and Wales together

- Scotland

- and Northern Ireland!

And the kingly trio for 2008 are Jack... Jack... and - Jack!

As you can see, Jack's still a massively popular name in the UK.

England and Wales

The top ten boys' names in England and Wales show a little shuffling about within the rankings, but there's nothing to get overly excited about here!

Alfie is the one to watch, moving up four places to number 6 this year.

New entries to the boys' top 50 include Jayden, Oscar, Archie, Riley, Lucas, Leo, Finley, Logan, and Noah.

So let's start off with...

The top ten boys' names in the UK - England and Wales.

  1. Jack
  2. Oliver
  3. Thomas
  4. Harry
  5. Joshua
  6. Alfie
  7. Charlie
  8. Daniel
  9. James
  10. William

New entries to the boys' top 100
There were only three new little boys coming into the UK top 100 lists this year!

  • Blake, ranking 91
  • Ewan, ranking 95
  • and Zak, at 100th spot!

And we say goodbye to Frederick, Dominic, and Andrew.

Rankings - Source: National Statistics website: www.statistics.gov.uk Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO

Top ten boys' names in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Jack, Matthew, Daniel, Ryan and James all appear in these two top tens, and Jack, Daniel and James appear in all three UK top rankings!

Here are the 2008 results:

RankScotlandNorthern Ireland
1 Jack Jack
2 Lewis Matthew
3 Daniel Daniel
4 Liam Ryan
5 James and Ryan tie for 5th place... James
6 ...so no 6th ranking place this time! Joshua
7 Callum Conor
8 Logan Dylan
9 Matthew Thomas
10 Cameron Charlie and Ethan tie for tenth place!
Rankings - Sources: Data supplied by General Register Office for Scotland www.gro-scotland.gov.uk and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency www.nisra.gov.uk Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO

Top 20 Welsh names

Want to find out about Welsh names? Here are the most popular Welsh names for 2007. I hope to find the 2008 stats shortly ;)


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