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Most frequent newborn children names. By sex

Most frequent newborn children names. By sex. Boys Catalonia. 2011
Ranking 2011 Number Rate per 1,000 childrens Ranking 2010
Marc 1 1,229 29.57 1
Àlex/Álex 2 814 19.58 2
Eric 3 764 18.38 5
Pol 4 739 17.78 3
Pau 5 735 17.68 4
Arnau 6 683 16.43 6
Biel 7 649 15.61 7
Gerard 8 616 14.82 12
Martí 9 613 14.75 8
Jan 10 599 14.41 9
Hugo 11 585 14.07 10
David 12 514 12.37 13
Nil 13 506 12.17 20
Daniel 14 500 12.03 11
Aleix 15 465 11.19 18
Oriol 16 465 11.19 15
Adrià 17 429 10.32 21
Adam 18 420 10.10 16
Iker 19 413 9.94 14
Joel 20 410 9.86 23
Source: Idescat. Names of newborn children, based on the Birth Statistics.
Most frequent newborn children names. By sex. Girls Catalonia. 2011
Ranking 2011 Number Rate per 1,000 childrens Ranking 2010
Martina 1 972 24.74 1
Laia 2 917 23.34 4
Júlia/Julia 3 910 23.16 2
Paula 4 835 21.25 3
Carla 5 752 19.14 6
Maria/María 6 739 18.81 5
Lucía 7 724 18.42 7
Clàudia/Claudia 8 606 15.42 9
Aina 9 595 15.14 10
Sara 10 577 14.68 8
Noa 11 529 13.46 11
Alba 12 485 12.34 12
Ariadna 13 480 12.21 13
Emma 14 458 11.66 17
Daniela 15 390 9.92 19
Abril 16 377 9.59 16
Jana 17 374 9.52 18
Ona 18 370 9.42 28
Sofía/Sofia 19 353 8.98 23
Anna 20 348 8.86 20
Source: Idescat. Names of newborn children, based on the Birth Statistics.

Last update: October 31, 2012.

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 "..".