You asked
Please provide me with the number of children registered with the following names for the most recent available year and the single year exactly 10 years prior to this:
Derek
Edmund
Edina
Patsy
Rodney
David
Basil
Dougal
Malcolm
Alan
Arthur
Norman
Homer
Hyacinth
Geraldine
Karen
Miranda
Nessa
Gavin
Stacey
Rene
Del
We said
Many thanks for your recent request.
Baby name statistics from 1996 to 2015 for England and Wales are available on our website:
Girl baby names statistics: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsgirls
Boy baby name statistics: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsboys
A baby names comparison tool is also available to analyse changing trends in boys and girls names in England and Wales has been developed by a third party using our data: http://names.darkgreener.com/
The tool allows you to compare baby name rankings since 1996. The data behind this tool is provided here: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/adhocs/006073babynames1996to2015
Prior to 1996, the top 100 rankings were produced by the General Register Office (GRO) at 10 year intervals from 1904 to 1994. 2016 baby name statistics are planned to be published August/September 2017.
Other special extracts and tabulations of births data for England and Wales are available (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreement of costs, where appropriate). If you require further information, you can contact the team directly at: vsob@ons.gov.uk