{"id":9350,"date":"2012-09-05T15:33:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9350"},"modified":"2012-09-05T15:34:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:34:31","slug":"what-are-the-most-popular-names-for-australian-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9350","title":{"rendered":"What are the most popular names for Australian babies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consider the most popular names in\u00a0Australia in 2011:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Position<\/strong><\/td>\nBoys<\/strong><\/td>\nGirls<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nOliver<\/td>\nChloe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nNoah<\/td>\nSophie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nWilliam<\/td>\nRuby<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nLachlan<\/td>\nCharlotte<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nEthan<\/td>\nOlivia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nJack<\/td>\nLily<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nLucas<\/td>\nAva<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nCharlie<\/td>\nElla<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nJoshua<\/td>\nEmily<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nThomas<\/td>\nMia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What is striking is how similar this list is to the one for England & Wales. For both boys’ and girls’ names, there is a 60% overlap in the top ten. All the most popular Australian names are popular in Britain as well with the exception of Lachlan.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m fascinated by the different names and naming practices around the world and I have written a major essay on the subject\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Consider the most popular names in\u00a0Australia in 2011: Position Boys Girls 1 Oliver Chloe 2 Noah Sophie 3 William Ruby 4 Lachlan Charlotte 5 Ethan Olivia 6 Jack Lily 7 Lucas Ava 8 Charlie Ella 9 Joshua Emily 10 Thomas Mia What is striking is how similar this list is to the one for England […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9354,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9350\/revisions\/9354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}