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Most frequent newborn children names. By sex

Most frequent newborn children names. By sex. Boys Catalonia. 2012
Ranking 2012 Number Rate per 1,000 childrens Ranking 2011
Marc 1 1,125 28.33 1
Àlex/Álex 2 753 18.96 2
Èric/Eric 3 735 18.51 3
Pol 4 696 17.53 4
Pau 5 669 16.85 5
Hugo 6 640 16.12 11
Biel 7 636 16.02 7
Arnau 8 621 15.64 6
Gerard 9 600 15.11 8
Jan 10 589 14.83 10
Martí 11 577 14.53 9
Nil 12 538 13.55 13
Aleix 13 450 11.33 15
David 14 441 11.11 12
Oriol 15 431 10.85 16
Daniel 16 425 10.70 14
Adam 17 405 10.20 18
Joel 18 379 9.55 20
Adrià 19 373 9.39 17
Iker 20 372 9.37 19
Source: Idescat. Names of newborn children, based on the Birth Statistics.
Most frequent newborn children names. By sex. Girls Catalonia. 2012
Ranking 2012 Number Rate per 1,000 childrens Ranking 2011
Júlia/Julia 1 954 25.51 3
Martina 2 889 23.78 1
Laia 3 833 22.28 2
Carla 4 748 20.00 5
Paula 5 697 18.64 4
Maria/María 6 683 18.27 6
Lucía 7 656 17.54 7
Aina 8 591 15.81 9
Noa 9 548 14.66 11
Sara 10 529 14.15 10
Clàudia/Claudia 11 528 14.12 8
Emma 12 515 13.77 14
Ariadna 13 452 12.09 13
Alba 14 451 12.06 12
Abril 15 380 10.16 16
Arlet 16 369 9.87 30
Daniela 17 355 9.49 15
Jana 18 348 9.31 17
Berta 19 338 9.04 22
Ona 20 333 8.91 18
Source: Idescat. Names of newborn children, based on the Birth Statistics.

Last update: October 23, 2013.

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 "..".