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19th Mar 2016

The most unpopular baby names of 2016 have been revealed

Paul Moore

Know anyone with these names?

Popularity can be a hard thing to define because being cool, hip, rad or any other dated ’90s lingo that implies you’re sound, isn’t an exact science. The general belief is that being comfortable in your own skin is usually a surefire way to ensure that you’re not a ‘Billy no mates’ but we’d wager that anyone with the name Max Power is more likely to be more popular than others.

Who wouldn’t want to go for a drink with Max Power?

Max Power

On the opposite end of things, names website BabyCentre has compiled a list of names that are reducing in popularity and here’s what they’ve discovered. After analysing baby name registration data, they measured those names that were once-popular against names that have no registrations on their site so far this year.

Here’s the names that are falling in popularity for girls;

Angela
Beverley
Carol
Debra
Diane
Donna
Doris
Elaine
Joanne
Maureen
Paula
Sally
Sandra
Sharon
Sheila
Tracey
Wendy
Yvonne

For boys;

Bertram
Cecil
Clarence
Clive
Cyril
Dean
Dennis
Derek
Duncan
Ernest
Geoffrey
Horace
Leonard
Malcolm
Neville
Nigel
Roy
Wayne

Having read this list we’ve got one question, does anyone actually know someone that’s named Bertram?

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