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Most Popular Baby Names 2010
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tagxedo.com Each year NISRA publish both a statistical bulletin and press release relating to the most popular forenames for babies in Northern Ireland. Most Recent Baby Names Publications (PDF)
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The press release is published at the end of December and contains provisional data for the top 20 boys' and girls' names registered so far that year.
The statistical bulletin is released the following August and contains finalised statistics for the 100 most popular names for the previous full registration year.
A comparison tool is available which allows users to compare changes in rank of the top 100 baby names in Northern Ireland between 2009 and 2010 and also 2000 and 2010.
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Copies of historical baby names publications can be found here.