The UK’s Fastest Rising Baby Names, 2010

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This was originally posted on June 14, 2010

Inspired by a couple of recent baby name popularity articles – on the excellent Huffington Post and Parentdish – we decided to take a look at our own UK baby name data and analyse 2010’s naming trends to date.

What did we do?

Well, we’re constantly recording what people are searching for at BabyNames.co.uk (anonymously, of course!). This helps us generate unique insights into prospective parents’ baby name trends. For this report, we compared the popularity of names entered into our search engine – Jan-Jun 2010 versus the same period in 2009. We did this by calculating the percentage increase in demand for each name.

What were the results?

Fastest Rising Girls Names of 2010 Fastest Rising Boys Names of 2010
  1. 1. Florence
  2. 2. Lucie
  3. 3. Lacey
  4. 4. Esme
  5. 5. Elena
  6. 6. Lucia
  7. 7. Beatrice
  8. 8. Violet
  9. 9. India
  10. 10. Frankie
  11. 11. Mai
  12. 12. Edie
  13. 13. Laila
  14. 14. Penelope
  15. 15. Elsie
  16. 16. Maisie
  17. 17. Lottie
  18. 18. Darcie
  19. 19. Penny
  20. 20. Poppy
  21. 21. Sadie
  22. 22. Maisy
  23. 23. Tallulah
  24. 24. Ivy
  25. 25. Carys
  26. 26. Lexi
  27. 27. Anya
  28. 28. Sienna
  29. 29. Savannah
  30. 30. Annabel
  31. 31. Willow
  32. 32. Betty
  33. 33. Macey
  34. 34. Emilia
  35. 35. Isla
  36. 36. Darcey
  37. 37. Gracie
  38. 38. Olive
  39. 39. Macy
  40. 40. Jemima
  41. 41. Arabella
  42. 42. Callie
  43. 43. Lyra
  44. 44. Isabella
  45. 45. Jessie
  46. 46. Rae
  47. 47. Talia
  48. 48. Harriet
  49. 49. Olivia
  50. 50. Scarlett
  1. 1. Ollie
  2. 2. Jenson
  3. 3. Eli
  4. 4. Jesse
  5. 5. Cole
  6. 6. Jude
  7. 7. Jacob
  8. 8. Leighton
  9. 9. Alistair
  10. 10. Oliver
  11. 11. Bradley
  12. 12. Tobias
  13. 13. Justin
  14. 14. Finn
  15. 15. Darcy
  16. 16. Cody
  17. 17. Rowan
  18. 18. Noah
  19. 19. Jackson
  20. 20. Freddie
  21. 21. Mason
  22. 22. Zachary
  23. 23. Ellis
  24. 24. Kelsey
  25. 25. Zach
  26. 26. Toby
  27. 27. Arthur
  28. 28. Lloyd
  29. 29. Angus
  30. 30. Henry
  31. 31. Robbie
  32. 32. Albert
  33. 33. Milo
  34. 34. Tom
  35. 35. Stanley
  36. 36. Louis
  37. 37. Lewis
  38. 38. Kane
  39. 39. Hugo
  40. 40. Levi
  41. 41. Connor
  42. 42. Frank
  43. 43. Frances
  44. 44. Issac
  45. 45. Leo
  46. 46. Elliott
  47. 47. Troy
  48. 48. Brodie
  49. 49. Jonah
  50. 50. Louie

So what you’re looking at are some of the names likely to be big gainers in popularity this year. Are any of them on your shortlist?

Some of these fast risers definitely correspond with pop trends – Florence must be inspired by Florence and the Machine, right? Also, Ollie and Jenson will have been boosted by X Factor and Formula 1 respectively. Finn is also the name of a popular character from hugely popular TV show “Glee.”

Incidentally, we’re still waiting for the official UK baby names data from 2009. We’re expecting to receive it, hot off the press from the UK government, in just a matter of weeks. Stay tuned!

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