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Most frequent newborn children names. By sex

Most frequent newborn children names. By sex. Boys Catalonia. 2009
Ranking 2009 Number Rate per 1,000 childrens Ranking 2008
Marc 1 1,331 30.18 1
Àlex/Álex 2 919 20.84 2
Pol 3 895 20.29 3
Pau 4 844 19.14 4
Arnau 5 766 17.37 5
Eric 6 703 15.94 9
Biel 7 649 14.72 11
Martí 8 629 14.26 13
David 9 621 14.08 8
Jan 10 597 13.54 7
Daniel 11 594 13.47 10
Hugo 12 587 13.31 12
Iker 13 555 12.58 6
Oriol 14 499 11.31 15
Adrià 15 484 10.97 16
Adam 16 480 10.88 25
Gerard 17 477 10.82 24
Roger 18 441 10.00 23
Joan 19 430 9.75 20
Joel 20 429 9.73 14
Source: Idescat. Names of newborn children, based on the Birth Statistics.
Most frequent newborn children names. By sex. Girls Catalonia. 2009
Ranking 2009 Number Rate per 1,000 childrens Ranking 2008
Paula 1 1,013 24.86 1
Laia 2 961 23.59 4
Júlia/Julia 3 889 21.82 5
Martina 4 886 21.74 7
Carla 5 870 21.35 2
Maria/María 6 869 21.33 6
Lucía 7 767 18.82 3
Sara 8 615 15.09 9
Clàudia/Claudia 9 595 14.60 8
Alba 10 556 13.65 10
Ariadna 11 531 13.03 13
Aina 12 527 12.93 12
Noa 13 482 11.83 15
Jana 14 473 11.61 11
Laura 15 423 10.38 14
Anna 16 404 9.92 16
Marta 17 397 9.74 17
Abril 18 386 9.47 19
Berta 19 382 9.38 18
Emma 20 376 9.23 20
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 "..".