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2011 results: https://www.behindthename.com/bb/baby/4199011
2012 results: https://www.behindthename.com/bb/baby/4356914
2013 results: https://www.behindthename.com/bb/baby/4483121
2014 results: https://www.behindthename.com/bb/baby/4574822
2015 results: https://www.behindthename.com/bb/baby/4664550
2016 results: https://www.behindthename.com/bb/baby/4774837
2017 results: https://www.behindthename.com/bb/baby/4883456

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As I have done since 2011, I counted up the top 10s from each month to find "BTN's Favorite" (now in quotes @@).

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2018 had the second highest participation record ever, with an average of 39 people per month sharing their top 10s. (41 / month in 2015 is the number to beat; tell your friends).

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I count like the SSA. Accents don't count (Léo and Leo are the same). If you posted combos, only the first name counted. And if you had a tie, I counted the first name ("Luke / Lukas / George, can't decide = point for Luke). Only 10 names per person per gender were counted, so if you tried to sneakily post an 11th or 12th name, it won't be here. And if you mistyped, I counted your error, because I can't read minds.

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Last year's top names were Alice and Sebastian.

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This year, we have a new #1 on both sides.

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For boys, the new #1 is Alexander. Alexander has always been in the top 10, but has never been #1. It also broke a record-- it recieved the most points in a single year for any name ever-- beating Arthur with 90 in 2015.

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For girls, it was a tight race, but the new #1 is Violet, up from #3 last year.

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Here’s the top 20 for girls and top 30 for boys for 2018. To get an idea of how many people put the name on their list each month, divide the number in the parenthesis by 12.

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Girls:

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1. Violet (49, 1.02%)
2. Josephine (48, 1.00%)
3. Florence (42, 0.87%)
4. Alice (35, 0.73%)
5. Helena, Louisa (32, 0.67%)
6. Hazel, Julia (31, 0.64%)
7. Adelaide, Eleanor, Veronica (29, 0.60%)
8. Aurora, Octavia (28, 0.58%)
9. Iris, Lily (26, 0.54%)
10. Lydia (25, 0.52%)
11. Luna, Marigold, Rose (24, 0.50%)
12. Beatrice, Lucia, Maude, Willow, Winifred (23, 0.48%)
13. Beatrix, Cordelia, Juliet, Wilhelmina (22, 0.46%)
14. Anna, Aurelia, Clara, Harriet, Maeve, Rosalind (21, 0.44%)
15. Dorothea, Eugenia, Genevieve, Jane, Mabel, Victoria (20, 0.42%)
16. Mary, Natalia, Petra, Rosalie, Sylvie, Zoe (19, 0.39%)
17. Cressida, Lilia, Vesper, Xanthe (18, 0.37%)
18. Antonia, Charlotte, Juniper, Nina, Ophelia, Pearl, Theodora, Zara (17, 0.35%)
19. Ada, Elaina, Elise, Opal (16, 0.33%)
20. Agatha, Agnes, Clementine, Eloise, Freya, Ivy, Miranda, Miriam, Susanna, Sybil, Viola (15, 0.31%)

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1. Alexander (94, 2.02%)
2. Arthur (79, 1.70%)
3. Sebastian (73, 1.57%)
4. August (70, 1.50%)
5. Henry, Oscar (55, 1.18%)
6. Magnus (47, 1.01%)
7. Thomas (42, 0.90%)
8. Felix, William (41 (0.88%)
9. Jasper (40, 0.86%)
10. Gabriel, Isaac (38, 0.82%)
11. George, Jack, James (36, 0.77%)
12. Leo (35, 0.75%)
13. Adrian, Nicholas (34, 0.73%)
14. Nikolai (33, 0.71%)
15. Frederick (32, 0.69%)
16. Theodore (31, 0.67%)
17. Oliver (30, 0.64%)
18. Elijah (29, 0.62%)
19. Raphael (28, 0.60%)
20. Benjamin, Elliot, Ezra, Nathaniel, Rowan (27, 0.58%)
21. Caspian, Robin, Samuel (26, 0.56%)
22. Casper (25, 0.54%)
23. Dominic, Edgar (24, 0.52%)
24. Julian, Malcolm (20, 0.43%)
25. Ari, Augustus, Cassidy, Jonas, Luke, Peter (19, 0.41%)
26. Andrew, Sidney (18, 0.39%)
27. Basil, Conrad, Fergus, Patrick, Tristan, Vincent, Wesley (17, 0.37%)
28. Asher, Caspar, Jorah, Prosper, Ptolemy (16, 0.34%)
29. Anselm, Griffin, Horatio, Ozias, Parker, Roman, Rupert (15, 0.32%)
30. Ambrose, Benedict, Dashiell, Everett, Francis, Philip, Phoenix, Roland, Ronan, Spencer, Walter (14, 0.30%)

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There have been no changes to the All-Time top 3-- I'll post the All Time top 20s in a reply.

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Isadora Evander Larkin
Radiance Nocturne Grey
www.behindthename.com/pnl/59411

This message was edited 12/24/2018, 10:02 AM