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The Most Popular Names in Scotland 2007
Notes
- All births have, by law, to be registered, and the records sent
in by local registrars to the General Register Office for Scotland.
This allows the production of tables showing the most popular first
forenames, not just for a section of the population or those
announced in a particular newspaper, but for all new babies born in
Scotland.
- All of the information for 2007 contained in these tables is
provisional. It is based on births registered up to early-December
2007. The information for 2006 contained in this paper is for the
full year, and therefore varies from that contained in last year's
paper.
- The rankings were based on the first forename recorded on the
birth register.
- Different spellings, e.g. Stephen, Steven, were counted
separately.
- Accents were ignored.
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