Tuesday, January 30, 2007
News from the General Register Office for Scotland
GROS publishes a list each year of the first names given to babies in Scotland, and, since our boy obviously features in the 2006 report, I would like to report the following news:
As you will see, rather more courageous spellings included Rori (2 babies in 2006); Rorie (1); Ruaidhri (2); Ruairdh (1); Ruairi (8); Ruairidh (26); Ruaraidh (6); Ruari (11); and Ruaridh (19). Hmm! That's a lot of choice. In the hospital, we had thought about going for a less Anglicised-type spelling but, frankly, looking at this list, I am now glad we didn't... I'd like him to be able to spell his name confidently before he's, like, ten...
... Rory is nowhere to be seen, of course, though the variant Ruairidh was seventh most popular in the Western Isles (but that's not too hard to achieve - that was on the basis of 3 babies!!).
And Rory's cousins? Isla's a pretty popular name, 19th overall for girls, and Niamh not far behind at all at 24th most popular.
I also noticed that there were 6 Noahs - and I know 2 of them! What's the chances?! But baby Cathal's probably got the rarest name amongst babies I know - there were only 3 of them last year... (so, if they ever had a reunion, you wouldn't need to hire a hall...)
This is the list of all the names given in Scotland in 2006...
... there were 139 Rorys this year. Hello to the 138 other baby Rorys! I'm sure your babies are very nearly as nice as ours ;-)
As you will see, rather more courageous spellings included Rori (2 babies in 2006); Rorie (1); Ruaidhri (2); Ruairdh (1); Ruairi (8); Ruairidh (26); Ruaraidh (6); Ruari (11); and Ruaridh (19). Hmm! That's a lot of choice. In the hospital, we had thought about going for a less Anglicised-type spelling but, frankly, looking at this list, I am now glad we didn't... I'd like him to be able to spell his name confidently before he's, like, ten...
Here's the top 100 names ranked by popularity...
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files1/stats/pop-names-06-t2.pdf
... this puts Rory, with our plain vanilla spelling, in 54th place in terms of overall popularity, just above Christopher (hah! eat my dust!), and just below Jay (Jay! I mean, it's a fine letter and everything, but really!).
... this puts Rory, with our plain vanilla spelling, in 54th place in terms of overall popularity, just above Christopher (hah! eat my dust!), and just below Jay (Jay! I mean, it's a fine letter and everything, but really!).
Here's the top 10 names by council area...
... Rory is nowhere to be seen, of course, though the variant Ruairidh was seventh most popular in the Western Isles (but that's not too hard to achieve - that was on the basis of 3 babies!!).
And Rory's cousins? Isla's a pretty popular name, 19th overall for girls, and Niamh not far behind at all at 24th most popular.
I also noticed that there were 6 Noahs - and I know 2 of them! What's the chances?! But baby Cathal's probably got the rarest name amongst babies I know - there were only 3 of them last year... (so, if they ever had a reunion, you wouldn't need to hire a hall...)
# posted by Thebellmagees @ 3:20 pm 
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Wow, trivia that has personal signifigance for us! I will now spend the afternoon checking the charts instead of doing any work :)
Would love a toddling/BLW conference in the park, could you email me (lauranen@gmail.com) & we'll arrange a time.
Laura @ Newbrowne
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Would love a toddling/BLW conference in the park, could you email me (lauranen@gmail.com) & we'll arrange a time.
Laura @ Newbrowne
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