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Most frequent newborn children names. By sex

Most frequent newborn children names. By sex. Boys Catalonia. 2017
Ranking 2017 Number Rate per 1,000 childrens Ranking 2016
Marc 1 719 20.96 1
Àlex/Álex 2 580 16.91 2
Pol 3 566 16.50 8
Nil 4 529 15.42 10
Jan 5 507 14.78 3
Hugo 6 502 14.64 5
Martí 7 499 14.55 4
Èric/Eric 8 498 14.52 7
Lucas 9 476 13.88 12
Biel 10 455 13.27 6
Pau 11 454 13.24 9
Leo 12 443 12.92 11
Arnau 13 405 11.81 14
Aleix 14 367 10.70 13
Bruno 15 329 9.59 18
Enzo 16 323 9.42 17
Daniel 17 308 8.98 15
Adam 18 293 8.54 16
Max 19 287 8.37 24
David 20 243 7.09 20
Source: Idescat. Names of newborn children, based on the Birth Statistics.
Most frequent newborn children names. By sex. Girls Catalonia. 2017
Ranking 2017 Number Rate per 1,000 childrens Ranking 2016
Júlia/Julia 1 634 19.69 2
Martina 2 601 18.67 1
Emma 3 563 17.49 6
Maria/María 4 532 16.52 5
Lucia 5 531 16.49 4
Laia 6 506 15.72 3
Paula 7 466 14.47 8
Sofía/Sofia 8 447 13.88 12
Ona 9 428 13.29 9
Carla 10 415 12.89 11
Noa 11 415 12.89 7
Aina 12 387 12.02 10
Abril 13 379 11.77 14
Arlet 14 374 11.62 13
Mia 15 373 11.58 18
Chloe/Chlóe 16 368 11.43 21
Clàudia/Claudia 17 360 11.18 17
Sara 18 337 10.47 15
Valèria/Valeria 19 301 9.35 20
Jana 20 299 9.29 22
Source: Idescat. Names of newborn children, based on the Birth Statistics.

Last update: September 27, 2018.

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 "..".