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Most frequent newborn children names. By sex

Most frequent newborn children names. By sex. Boys Catalonia. 2010
Ranking 2011 Number Rate per 1,000 childrens Ranking 2010
Marc 1 1,294 29.70 1
Àlex/Álex 2 882 20.25 2
Eric 3 844 19.37 3
Pol 4 798 18.32 4
Pau 5 735 16.87 6
Arnau 6 716 16.43 5
Biel 7 660 15.15 7
Gerard 8 633 14.53 8
Martí 9 623 14.30 10
Jan 10 598 13.73 12
Hugo 11 565 12.97 11
David 12 560 12.85 17
Nil 13 558 12.81 9
Daniel 14 505 11.59 13
Aleix 15 460 10.56 14
Oriol 16 456 10.47 16
Adrià 17 426 9.78 22
Adam 18 421 9.66 21
Iker 19 414 9.50 23
Joel 20 413 9.48 27
Source: Idescat. Names of newborn children, based on the Birth Statistics.
Most frequent newborn children names. By sex. Girls Catalonia. 2010
Ranking 2011 Number Rate per 1,000 childrens Ranking 2010
Martina 1 966 23.88 4
Laia 2 951 23.51 3
Júlia/Julia 3 903 22.32 1
Paula 4 885 21.88 2
Carla 5 784 19.38 6
Maria/María 6 782 19.33 5
Lucía 7 756 18.69 7
Clàudia/Claudia 8 659 16.29 8
Aina 9 632 15.62 9
Sara 10 591 14.61 12
Noa 11 566 13.99 13
Alba 12 519 12.83 10
Ariadna 13 437 10.80 11
Emma 14 398 9.84 15
Daniela 15 396 9.79 19
Abril 16 393 9.72 18
Jana 17 392 9.69 20
Ona 18 391 9.67 14
Sofía/Sofia 19 388 9.59 22
Anna 20 367 9.07 16
Source: Idescat. Names of newborn children, based on the Birth Statistics.

Last update: October 13, 2011.

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 "..".