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Most frequent newborn children names. By sex

Most frequent newborn children names. By sex. Boys Catalonia. 2016
Ranking 2016 Number Rate per 1,000 childrens Ranking 2015
Marc 1 832 23.60 1
Àlex/Álex 2 656 18.61 2
Jan 3 562 15.94 7
Martí 4 557 15.80 3
Hugo 5 553 15.69 4
Biel 6 551 15.63 5
Èric/Eric 7 546 15.49 6
Pol 8 544 15.43 9
Pau 9 521 14.78 10
Nil 10 500 14.18 8
Leo 11 435 12.34 12
Lucas 12 433 12.28 15
Aleix 13 415 11.77 13
Arnau 14 391 11.09 11
Daniel 15 336 9.53 14
Adam 16 304 8.62 21
Enzo 17 295 8.37 22
Bruno 18 290 8.23 18
Gerard 19 290 8.23 16
David 20 281 7.97 17
Source: Idescat. Names of newborn children, based on the Birth Statistics.
Most frequent newborn children names. By sex. Girls Catalonia. 2016
Ranking 2016 Number Rate per 1,000 childrens Ranking 2015
Martina 1 702 21.03 1
Júlia/Julia 2 649 19.44 2
Laia 3 582 17.44 3
Lucía 4 573 17.17 4
Maria/María 5 566 16.96 6
Emma 6 550 16.48 5
Noa 7 544 16.30 9
Paula 8 521 15.61 8
Ona 9 475 14.23 13
Aina 10 474 14.20 7
Carla 11 467 13.99 10
Sofía/Sofia 12 433 12.97 17
Arlet 13 422 12.64 16
Abril 14 397 11.89 12
Sara 15 379 11.35 14
Alba 16 361 10.82 15
Clàudia/Claudia 17 354 10.61 11
Mia 18 346 10.37 21
Daniela 19 326 9.77 21
Valèria/Valeria 20 323 9.68 23
Source: Idescat. Names of newborn children, based on the Birth Statistics.

Last update: September 28, 2017.

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 "..".