Top 20 boys' and girls' names and other tables
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This section presents information on the most popular names given to babies in Scotland during 2003.
The tables below give information on the top 20 boys' and girls' birth names in 2003.
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Boys |
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Change in Ranking |
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Girls |
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Change in Ranking |
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Rank |
Name |
Count |
2002-03 |
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Rank |
Name |
Count |
2002-03 |
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1 |
Lewis |
760 |
+1 |
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1 |
Emma |
632 |
+2 |
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2 |
Jack |
708 |
-1 |
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2 |
Ellie |
515 |
+4 |
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3 |
Cameron |
589 |
- |
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3 |
Amy |
464 |
+1 |
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4 |
James |
453 |
+1 |
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4 |
Sophie |
456 |
-2 |
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5 |
Kyle |
442 |
+6 |
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5 |
Chloe |
417 |
-4 |
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6 |
Ryan |
427 |
-2 |
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6 |
Erin |
386 |
-1 |
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7 |
Ben |
396 |
+6 |
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7 |
Rachel |
338 |
- |
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8 |
Callum |
390 |
+2 |
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8 |
Lucy |
336 |
+6 |
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9 |
Matthew |
386 |
-1 |
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9 |
Lauren |
330 |
-1 |
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10= |
Jamie |
385 |
-4 |
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10 |
Katie |
326 |
+6 |
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10= |
Adam |
385 |
+5 |
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11 |
Emily |
325 |
+1 |
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12 |
Connor |
380 |
+2 |
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12 |
Hannah |
324 |
-2 |
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13 |
Daniel |
373 |
+4 |
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13 |
Rebecca |
314 |
-2 |
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14 |
Liam |
361 |
-7 |
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14 |
Megan |
308 |
-5 |
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15 |
Ross |
348 |
-6 |
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15 |
Caitlin |
275 |
-2 |
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16 |
Dylan |
334 |
-4 |
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16 |
Abbie |
274 |
+3 |
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17 |
Andrew |
317 |
-1 |
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17 |
Holly |
263 |
-2 |
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18 |
Nathan |
289 |
+2 |
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18 |
Aimee |
241 |
+11 |
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19 |
Aidan |
287 |
+3 |
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19 |
Niamh |
205 |
+2 |
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20 |
Kieran |
286 |
-2 |
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20 |
Olivia |
203 |
+14 |
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Table 1 |
Top 100 boys' names: Scotland, 2003, together with changes since 2002
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Table 2 |
Top 100 girls' names: Scotland, 2003, together with changes since 2002
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Table 3 |
Top 100 boys' and girls' names, Scotland, 2003: listed alphabetically
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Table 4 |
Notes
- All births have, by law, to be registered, and the records sent in by local registrars to the National Records of Scotland. This allows the production of tables showing the most popular first forenames, not just for a section of the population or those announced in a particular newspaper, but for all new babies born in Scotland.
- All the information for 2003 contained in these tables is provisional. It is based on births registered up to mid-December 2003. The information for 2002 contained in this paper is for the full year, and therefore varies from that contained in last year's paper.
- The rankings were based on the first forename recorded on the birth register.
- Different spellings, e.g. Stephen, Steven, were counted separately.
- Accents were ignored.