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Most frequent newborn children names. By sex

Most frequent newborn children names. By sex. Boys Catalonia. 2008
Ranking 2008 Number Rate per 1,000 childrens Ranking 2007
Marc 1 1,419 30.86 1
Àlex/Alex 2 963 20.94 2
Pol 3 926 20.14 3
Pau 4 884 19.22 4
Arnau 5 799 17.38 6
Iker 6 736 16.01 11
Jan 7 715 15.55 9
David 8 711 15.46 5
Eric 9 710 15.44 7
Daniel 10 660 14.35 8
Biel 11 626 13.61 14
Hugo 12 619 13.46 15
Martí 13 593 12.90 10
Joel 14 545 11.85 12
Oriol 15 533 11.59 13
Adrià 16 494 10.74 17
Jordi 17 473 10.29 20
Víctor 18 454 9.87 21
Aleix 19 448 9.74 23
Izan 20 444 9.66 18
Joan 20 444 9.66 19
Source: Idescat. Names of newborn children, based on the Birth Statistics.
Most frequent newborn children names. By sex. Girls Catalonia. 2008
Ranking 2008 Number Rate per 1,000 childrens Ranking 2007
Paula 1 1,061 24.65 3
Carla 2 1,006 23.37 6
Lucía 3 998 23.19 2
Laia 4 996 23.14 4
Júlia/Julia 5 982 22.82 1
Maria/María 6 948 22.03 5
Martina 7 888 20.63 7
Clàudia/Claudia 8 672 15.61 8
Sara 9 635 14.75 10
Alba 10 571 13.27 9
Jana 11 566 13.15 12
Aina 12 562 13.06 13
Ariadna 13 519 12.06 14
Laura 14 514 11.94 11
Noa 15 513 11.92 16
Anna 16 495 11.50 15
Marta 17 470 10.92 18
Berta 18 426 9.90 19
Abril 19 407 9.46 22
Emma 20 404 9.39 26
Source: Idescat. Names of newborn children, based on the Birth Statistics.

Last update: December 22, 2010.

Methodological note

Methodological aspects

Natural movement provides regular information on basic demographic flows such as births, deaths and marriages in order to assess the population development and trends.

The source of the statistics on the natural population movement is the declarations made when registering a birth, marriage or death in the Civil Registry, which also requires a statistical bulletin to be filled out on the event. The figures presented refer exclusively to the registrations made in Catalonia by people living there, and these statistics are conducted through a cooperation agreement with the INE.

The Statistical Institute of Catalonia (Idescat) offers information in relation to the names of babies born in Catalonia. This information is similar to that provided by other statistical institutes in Europe, which include the Belgium's National Institute of Statistics, Norway?s National Statistics Institute, and the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE).

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".